Example sentences of "provide [pn reflx] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to try to provide himself with a little more scope for an escape bid . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But his lordship 's grandfather was a cautious man , and provided himself with a secret way out at need . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Decentralization permits each locality to provide itself with the quantity of the good it prefers . |
| 7 | And provide yourself with a little amusement into the bargain ? ’ |
| 8 | Abolitionists provided themselves with a collective equivalent to the practice of personal scrutiny in their annual meetings . |
| 9 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 10 | Having clarified your objectives , and provided yourself with the necessary resources , make a start . |
| 11 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |
| 12 | You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 15 | Wild fish ‘ accidentally ’ provide themselves with the right mix of fats , vitamins , minerals , proteins and carbohydrates ; our Koi have no such choice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Immediately following on the principle that it must establish an effective intelligence system , he placed the further principle that it must provide itself with a legal system adequate for the needs of the moment . |
| 20 | Article F(3) states : ‘ The Union shall provide itself with the means necessary to attain its objectives and carry through its policies . ’ |
| 21 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 22 | But its existence meant that Britain had joined the other major states of Europe in providing herself with a minister and an administrative machine designed to conduct and control foreign policy . |
| 23 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 24 | William , we may remember , had thoughtfully provided himself with a burial plot many years before : so square L9 , grave no. 62,076 it was , as he was laid to rest at Abney Park . |
| 25 | What is important to note is that the collaboration between Grover Jackson and Randy Rhoads in designing this guitar was both fruitful and a complete success , because between them they produced an instrument which , in Randy 's hands , has provided itself with an impressive track record . |
| 26 | Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves . |