Example sentences of "provided [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it . |
| 2 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 3 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 4 | Wyndham Lewis kindly provided me with a similar introduction to James Joyce . |
| 5 | The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial . |
| 6 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 7 | When Hazlitt and Coleridge visited Alfoxden the following day , Wordsworth was away from home ; but Dorothy provided them with a ‘ frugal repast ’ and let them see the now-abundant manuscripts intended for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 8 | Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier . |
| 9 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 10 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 11 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 12 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 13 | Interviewed by , of all newspapers , The Daily Worker ( now The Morning Star ) , Raymond Cusick provided them with a colour illustration interpreting his idea of what lay inside . |
| 14 | The network of family , village and regional ties , the zemlyachestva , which ‘ peasant-proletarians ’ imported into the city provided them with a social nexus which at least limited the disorientation and anomie imputed to them . |
| 15 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 16 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 17 | Day and night toxic waste pours out of the factories straight into the sea , poisoning the waters which once provided them with a living as independent fishermen . |
| 18 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 19 | Two organisations which we visited further emphasised the " non-regularity " of their temporary workers ' employment by not guaranteeing them any fixed number of hours per week — they were contracted to work " as and when required " — and this , of course , provided them with an important , additional source of flexibility . |
| 20 | Increasingly during the next fifteen years the triangle formed by Swansea , Pontardulais , and Ammanford — with the fr owning eminence of Carreg Cennen Castle in the distance — provided him with a retreat and a source of healing as he faltered towards his final realization as a poet . |
| 21 | Grant 's responsibilities at John Dickinson provided him with a wide knowledge of the paper manufacturing processes used throughout the world and the way in which they were being improved . |
| 22 | Served up as B fodder , at least it provided him with a salary , albeit on rock-bottom union rates of around $300 for a full working week , which assured him a place barely above the poverty line . |
| 23 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 24 | His main theme was the increasing power of Rome in the Mediterranean and this , as Momigliano points out , Provided him with a new historical perspective : ‘ Just because Fortune made almost all the affairs of the world incline in one direction , it is the historian 's task to put before his readers a compendious view of the ways in which Fortune accomplished her purposes . ’ |
| 25 | This not only kept the suit in good condition and therefore prolonged its life but also provided him with a smart outfit always ready at short notice , as now . |
| 26 | She no longer provided him with a defence against his own yearning for safety which had been so well hidden behind his off-hand behaviour . |
| 27 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 28 | Birmingham born , Graham Tiso left school to work for Cadbury 's , the confectioners , who provided him with a sound overall business training . |
| 29 | The King , having word of this in advance , provided him with a signet ring which he showed and which entitled the matter to be transferred to the King 's presence , where the accusers were roundly rebuked . |
| 30 | With scrupulous fairness Hall also reproduces in an appendix a report by Karin Figala of Munich , who provided him with a summary of her own research on Newton 's alchemical studies . |