"present something to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to describe an action of offering something to someone. For example: "The Chef presented a delicious dish to the judges of the competition."
"I want to be able to present something to people".
This is partly what it means to present something to an audience – the wish to be known, to inhabit a persona, accompanied by a certain shamelessness.
"My strategy was to present something to people that was honestly me," the Academy Award-winning actress told ForbesWoman of her collaboration with Coty.
Quin is the result of us trying to prove ourselves and present something to the current (and future) community that demonstrates where we are, and what we can expect.
Or maybe that's the point of a system like this: To present something to someone that he or she might not think they'd ever look good in or visualize themselves even wearing.
If you present something to the world even something you find meaningful or beautiful there is always the possibility that someone out there will challenge it, take it, curse its name, or flat out ignore it.
"If primary education is more than just presenting something to children, then class size is important.
"I believe I heard that he's going to be presenting something to Mo on Sunday.
Let's say a designer presents something to a client, and the C.E.O.
If someone presented something to him that didn't move him, he made no effort to pretend that it did.
This presented something to respond to that transcended narrow and purely local interests, and made us disposed to listen carefully when the state's top environmental officer approached us to discuss alternatives to the project".
