Example sentences of "to provide [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 3 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 4 | He decided to try to provide himself with a little more scope for an escape bid . |
| 5 | So the animal will work in order to provide itself with those conditions . |
| 6 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 7 | It can not be stressed too strongly that a great deal of the blame for unsatisfactory deeds must lie in the failure of the Scottish legal profession to provide itself with a service for new styles . |
| 8 | Decentralization permits each locality to provide itself with the quantity of the good it prefers . |
| 9 | Russia , to whom the Near East was almost if not quite as important as to the Habsburgs , also made considerable though less systematic efforts to provide herself with men competent in Turkish . |
| 10 | On the other hand , shaky close-ups , even of magnificent beasts , are not very good to watch and you really need to provide yourself with some kind of additional support to help you hold the camcorder steady . |
| 11 | Paper circulates today in vast quantities , and you need only to retrieve some of this to provide yourself with an adequate body of notes at no cost at all . |
| 12 | You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation . |
| 13 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People who skip breakfast work less efficiently than people who have taken the trouble to provide themselves with fuel for the morning . |
| 16 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 17 | Whilst it is accepted that the department has done exceptionally well in getting every member of the school who does Art to provide themselves with pencils , rubbers and sketch pads , it is felt that the time is now right for the department to expand this and push for pupils to provide paints for themselves . |
| 18 | Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities . |
| 19 | 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 . |