Example sentences of "provide he [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , while reading for the bar , his health broke down and , following a period of recuperation in Italy and without formal art training , he took up painting and an art patron , Sir Coutts Lindsay , provided him with a studio in London . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gregory of Tours could at last write a coherent narrative of a barbarian ruler and provide him with a chronology . |
| 9 | The Octobrist party , whose leaders attempted to provide him with a base of support within the Duma , found themselves coming under increasing criticism , and the party fell apart . |
| 10 | In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation . |
| 11 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 12 | The small producer will be drawn into a socialised enterprise , not by means of non-economic coercion , but chiefly by the economic advantages which will provide him with a tractor , electric light bulbs , agricultural machinery and so on . |
| 13 | But I should say very often the old Guv'nor would let him have either a shilling to go down to the pub while we did the job , or else he would provide him with a jug of home-brewed beer and bread and cheese . |
| 14 | Reliving the experience ( even if only in his imagination ) will still take away his feelings of foolishness and will provide him with a reason for his phobia . |
| 15 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 16 | Money enables an individual to delay a potential purchase to the most convenient time by providing him with a way in which to store his purchasing power . |
| 17 | The French fabliau Boivin de Provins , for instance , treats the prostitutes just as one source of sexually desirable and available women , and laughs with the man who is able to con them into providing him with a whore for free . |
| 18 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 19 | She honestly believed that she was making life easier for Jack , by providing him with a background of home , where not only were meals provided and clothes mended , but his time was also jealously guarded . |
| 20 | My father was taken from his clerking job at Flatford Mill to go to London and look after his brother , a local merchant with interests in the City providing him with a post . |
| 21 | He deliberately kept the Lamonts in a separate compartment , their home providing him with a place to refuel in company he enjoyed and in countryside he loved . |
| 22 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
| 23 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
| 24 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
| 25 | We had to do this because some chucklehead had provided him with a typist 's chair on castors and every time the truck turned left he did a circuit of the flat-back , sending everybody else flying . |
| 26 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 27 | He can , then , only withdraw into his own culture which provides him with a sense of lived connections for his experiences but these are bounded by his enterprise and separate from the larger society . |