Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
| 2 | The fact that he had never asked the man if he 'd been able to fix the problem , Folly suddenly realised , was proof enough that the supposedly leaky tap was just an excuse to provide her with a chaperon . |
| 3 | Certainly when you arrive at the school they are committed by their contract to provide you with a desk office and and telephone facilities for two to three week or the duration of the assignment . |
| 4 | Oxford Polytechnic , deriving from a further education institution with poor facilities , had a struggle to establish itself with the CNAA . |
| 5 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 6 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 7 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 8 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 9 | On April 17 , security officials interrupted the Good Friday service of Mgr Roche to serve him with an expulsion order . |
| 10 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 11 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 12 | It had not been her intention to favour him with a compliment . |
| 13 | In plating , components are dropped into various solutions to coat them with a metal such as zinc or aluminium . |
| 14 | Jake leaned forward in his seat to fix her with a look . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
| 16 | They have long advised serious car-radio listeners to equip themselves with a Radio Data System . |
| 17 | She felt his staff tremble , and she sucked with her lips to milk him with the expertise of a milkmaid . |
| 18 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 19 | Tonight was by way of a rehearsal to familiarize himself with the place , make final arrangements , and tell the landlord sufficient of their plans to ensure that there was no unforeseen interference . |
| 20 | The first engine rolled out of the Springfield sheds on November 4 1902 , and it would have been one of the last to use the level crossing at Thompson Street because very soon the council seem to have ordered Stivvies to replace it with a bridge . |
| 21 | As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games . |
| 22 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 23 | Industry-level bargaining would seem to have corresponded most closely to the preferences of employers and their capacity to organise themselves with a view to protecting market shares and strengthening their own bargaining power . |
| 24 | Five years ago Hamish Fraser asked Lossiemouth ladies ' guild to supply him with a collecting box to take to work on oil rig MCP 01 in the North Sea . |
| 25 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 26 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 27 | When Major Burrows was stationed at a camp in a nearby suburb Mrs Burrows , Eva and Margaret would take a train each Sunday afternoon to help him with the evening service he conducted for the soldiers . |
| 28 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 29 | Clencing her teeth until her jaw ached , she gave him a baleful stare while she wondered if she actually had the courage to hit him with the trowel . |
| 30 | The ground was largely excavated by hand , and shovelled into small tipping trucks , which were then hauled on rails by horses.4 ; Excavated material from the lower level was raised to form the top of the planes and a stretch of embanked canal to connect them with the summit pound . |