I was given a nasty look when I asked for my prescription at the local doctor's.

I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

It is the drop in the rice pricing (blamed on consumers' loss of interest in rice and the freeing up of the international market) that is the cause.

That there are various conflicts, frictions, within the races of man is a point made clear within this book as well.

I suppose that means that, after all, people taken for a sucker give off a 'sucker aura'.

I think there are many who binge eat from stress.

So. Having had all that done to him it would be stranger if he wasn't enraged.

In my social studies class, for example, there are often discussions that include the teacher as another member of the group.

Nothing is more comforting than kindness offered to us while traveling.

If you don't keep your promises, people won't take you seriously.

Weakness brought on by a number of respiratory ailments had forced him just last week to announce that he was giving up his conducting career.

The patient has been attended carefully by a nurse.

The money needed will be given at any time.

She was left alone in the room.

She got rattled by the stupid question.

In her home, kitchen garbage was fed to the pigs.

Her kindness gave me a lump in my throat.

They were hindered in their study.

They are organizing politically and working to ensure that they are respected and valued.