Example sentences of "provide [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it .
3 Anorexia provided me with the illusion that I was in control , not only of my body and my own status within the community , but of that community itself and , finally , of the biological processes which others around me were powerless to influence .
4 But disabled people who use them say the workshops provide them with a sense of dignity as well as permanent paid work .
5 When the children arrive , provide them with a piece of paper listing the clues and with a space to record each letter that is found .
6 Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ?
7 This helps the cancers form and maintain the blood vessels that nourish them , and which provide them with the routes through which they spread .
8 I think it 's from the organization 's point of view , from our statement of purpose , business plan , yeah , we do want people to achieve certain things , and therefore we provide them with the training to be able to do that .
9 Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need .
10 At the primary level , the mathematics curriculum should , therefore , equip children with the skills and language of number , enrich their aesthetic and linguistic experience , provide them with the means of exploring and commenting upon their environment , and develop their powers of logical thought .
11 In some cases , it is felt that if play-schools and nurseries will accommodate mentally handicapped young children this will in itself provide them with an opportunity to share early experiences with other young children , and encourage the concept of immediate integration into the community .
12 One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren .
13 to provide me with a reference .
14 to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God !
15 I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own .
16 to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God !
17 The authorities in Addis Ababa had undertaken to provide me with an escort of ten soldiers while I was among the Danakil .
18 The defence recognises that market makers play an important role within the securities market and that to provide them with no immunity would be to make that market less liquid .
19 As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity .
20 The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it .
21 Three-quarters of all Germans now believe that the government has a duty to provide them with a job and a house .
22 The courses are aimed at senior management and are intended to provide them with the knowledge and skills to exploit AIT effectively in their business .
23 this freedom we talk about is worthy of their support because it is for them we fight ; it is for the establishment of a social system that is going to provide them with the opportunity and the means to develop all that is best in them and the Nation .
24 The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed .
25 So really it 's understood in these allegations that you 're saying that the solicitors should have invited your client to provide them with the authority to write to the bank .
26 In disregard of this fact , Winans engaged in a scheme with certain Wall Street financiers to provide them with the contents of the column prior to its publication .
27 They 've asked us to provide them with the finance one container , that 's five hundred pound , plus two hundred pound transport , which will be matched by the community council if we do it .
28 We recognise that those who live and work in the vicinity of our plants have the right to know about our activities and we are doing our very best to provide them with the information they require .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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