Example sentences of "provided [pers pn] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and they they provided me with boxes of tapes and batteries and eh Walkman and so on and so forth and eh , I 'm trying to be conscientious . |
| 2 | For what had visited me in my weakest hour and provided me with food if not that damned creation of Frankenstein 's ? |
| 3 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 4 | The Bradford Ukrainian Society was particularly supportive and provided them with dictionaries , contacts and artwork . |
| 5 | Erm I think last year , Well what I 've got to do , I 've got last year National Grid provided them with pens . |
| 6 | It provided them with assistance in their education , in their hospitals , actually one of the biggest hospitals in the occupied lands in Palestine , it was funded more than seventy per cent by Kuwaiti governments and their university was also from tuition and the salaries of professors they are all sponsored by the Kuwait government . |
| 7 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 8 | So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services . |
| 9 | Such an attitude , though unfavourable to the concept of a universal church , could be of great benefit to cathedrals , monasteries , and parish churches , because it provided them with protectors , and because often a high standard of religious observance could be stimulated by family pride . |
| 10 | On occasion the underlying philosophy was extremely crude , recommending that ‘ if you provided them with footballs and made them kick footballs , they would not be so inclined to kick policemen in the street ’ . |
| 11 | There were people who provided him with houses — such as that in Bethany — which were comfortable and large enough to accommodate , at the very least , his immediate entourage . |
| 12 | Mrs Maxwell provided him with £500,000 after the death of her husband Robert because her son was in trouble , she says in an affidavit signed for liquidators of the private Maxwell companies . |
| 13 | Most lucrative of all , at the end of his life , was his farm of the customs on imported silks , which provided him with £1,333 per annum up to 1610 and £7,000 per annum for the next two years . |
| 14 | When William I was to meet Alexander III in 1887 , Bismarck provided him with notes which included the words ‘ Au temps où nous vivons plus qu'ä aucune autre époque de l'histoire , il est de l'intérêt des grandes monarchies d'éviter la guerre … même en Allemagne — si contre toute attente nous venions à ètre vaincus — les chances de la république dêmocratique ou sociale gagneraient considérablement par notre défaite . ’ |
| 15 | But she provided him with loyalty , sensible advice and a closely shared experience of life for over fifty years . |
| 16 | A week later , of his own volition , he provided him with proof that Albrecht Haushofer had written to Douglas , Duke of Hamilton , before the war — and that Hamilton had shown the letter to Winston Churchill at his Morpeth Mansions flat . |
| 17 | The bank provided him with £40,000 which , coupled with his redundancy money , provided the £70,000 he needed to get started . |
| 18 | It was held that the employers were in breach of their personal duty of care , as they should have told the plaintiff to test the sashes to see if they were loose and provided him with wedges . |
| 19 | A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven . |
| 20 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 21 | Many of Richard Gough 's contemporaries provided him with information about a wide range of cousins and about ancestors going back several generations . |
| 22 | Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly . |
| 23 | The doctor provided her with anti-depressants . |
| 24 | She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people . |
| 25 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
| 26 | Whoever owned the cabin had wide-ranging interests — apart from several well-thumbed fishing journals and a variety of motoring magazines , there were numerous glossies that provided her with food for thought . |
| 27 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 28 | As well as giving us data for the industry , the LFS provided us with information about the narrow ( KOS ) occupational group of waiters and bar staff in which casuals are concentrated . |