Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] with an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The authorities in Addis Ababa had undertaken to provide me with an escort of ten soldiers while I was among the Danakil .
2 In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement .
3 After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course .
4 We will be pleased to provide you with an estimate of these costs in advance , on request .
5 She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house .
6 Bounderby 's mother , a decent hard-working woman who managed to provide him with an education .
7 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 .
8 The burdens and lack of stability of his social community became unbearable and the poet yearns for an age of permanence and simplicity to provide him with an alternative to the real world .
9 Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest .
10 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 .
11 In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement .
12 Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa .
13 On April 17 , security officials interrupted the Good Friday service of Mgr Roche to serve him with an expulsion order .
14 [ 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 .
15 In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC .
16 THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children .
17 Should you wish to paint hardwood for the first time , it will be necessary to coat it with an aluminium primer .
18 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 .
19 In the beginning an arm-band was all we had to identify us with an assortment of weapons , not enough ammunition , and not really knowing what our role was .
20 Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun .
21 I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face .
22 Literary representation enters a complex negotiation with history , a debate about ‘ things ’ ( institutions , actions , events ) and the words used to name them with an awareness that both the names and the things may be otherwise .
23 His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera .
24 Which is the advice you 'd get if you asked Elonex to supply you with an accounting package .
25 It pays to equip yourself with an understanding of a society that will change so much in political , economic , social , scientific , technological and cultural terms during your own working lifetime .
26 You know what whatever the situation is we we done it by then , but er we we do they they are guaranteeing to supply us with an office and telephone facility for up to three weeks .
27 The judge may have tried to throw you with an interruption partly because you were reading your argument in a monotonous way .
28 I would gladly say , ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ and at once part company with him , realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to tlatter him with an imitation which he has always disdained .
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