Example sentences of "provide [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I think all the things that I initially tried to recruit carers were n't successful — I went to talk to vicars and community centres and the job centre , and wherever — none of these provided me with … well one vicar provided me with somebody . |
2 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
3 | So being a fan is mostly about replenishment , and last year provided me with plenty of that ; outplayed by Benfica , two or three months of dismal ineptitude in the league around Christmas , and then the Wrexham humiliation … |
4 | " My life was formed only by means of the public library which provided me with my only uncensored access to books . |
5 | The tiny white fruiting bodies of this provide them with their food . |
6 | But a lot of ‘ desk ’ activity is invented to give people importance and provide them with something to do . |
7 | And if and if they have n't got any treasure , then we provide them with it , |
8 | I hope for your sake that those who provide them for you are as careful in following the rules as you should be when creating your own . |
9 | She … she wanted to provide me with something to be able to go off with Emma where he could n't get at her . |
10 | I could usually rely on George Polley , a committed Socialist and one or two other outspoken councillors , like Mark Finn and Eddie Quill , to provide me with my third of a column of copy . |
11 | As these fish are rather shy , the tank needs to be densely planted to provide them with plenty of cover . |
12 | You will also need to run an airstone from an aquarium pump to the fish to provide them with plenty of oxygen and to monitor the water for ammonia and nitrite . |
13 | Of course , you can not hope to provide them with everything they need , but you must try to provide something to encourage them to come to your microhabitat . |
14 | The media can not operate without input and you will need to provide them with something of interest to impart . |
15 | He made it cling to the garments of his characters to provide them with something of their personalities . |
16 | Many hotels use specially designed sets of documents to provide them with their required information . |
17 | Consequently , for many carers , subsidising the living expenses of an elderly or disabled person in order to provide them with what the carer considers to be an acceptable standard of living is an integral part of care-giving . |
18 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |
19 | Voice your opinions by all means , Mr Stigle , but please think next time before criticising the efforts of those who provide you with our hobby by their unselfish efforts . |
20 | Your local social services department has wide powers to provide you with whatever they think appropriate , for example , day care for your child or help in the home . |
21 | Minto not only provided him with plenty of Screwtape- style domestic situations . |
22 | It served a dual purpose ; it provided him with lots of material for the classroom and enabled him to discuss his ideas with colleagues from a wide variety of schools . |
23 | Danby 's fall in 1679 may have deprived Dering of a political ally and patron , but it provided him with his most prestigious government position . |
24 | But Althusser elaborates it a little , using the example of Christianity , where religious practice is said to ‘ hail ’ the individual and provide him with his status as a subject . |
25 | The care he took , as well as his natural good looks , continued to provide him with plenty of pick-ups in his early forties . |
26 | They also display all the features of a volcanicity that lasted late enough to terrify Palaeolithic man and perhaps to provide him with his fire . |
27 | erm And , of course , that was a symbol of all the problems of money that the king had , and the ordinary citizens of Oxford had in trying to provide him with it , mostly very reluctantly and unwillingly . |
28 | These , when they hatch , provide her with her first work force . |
29 | Will the new channel be able to provide it within its economic constraints ? |
30 | In general , housing was built by private enterprise , since local authorities were unwilling or unable to provide it from their income from rates . |