Example sentences of "had provide [pers pn] with " in BNC.

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1 We also had to provide them with lunch at 2.30 pm .
2 In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion .
3 They had provided me with a small team of assistants and advisers , and a more agreeable collection of people one could not have found .
4 Her mother came from a high-born Portuguese family , so Sara had learnt that language from the cradle ; and the devoted services of the family chaplain had provided her with considerable ability in French and Latin as well .
5 The wardrobe had provided her with a vest of padded cotton , but for some reason she would n't wear it .
6 Appreciation that he had provided her with the escape route she had so badly sought ?
7 Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way .
8 They had provided her with a local map , pin-pointing the exact location of the Château La Tour Monchauzet , and explaining she should take the Villereal road out of Issigeac , but only for a short distance .
9 At one level Jamaica had provided him with an intense visual experience .
10 The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 After Iraq was condemned for its use of chemical weapons , President Khamenei was quoted as having wished the UN had gone on to take steps against both Iraq and the states which had provided it with the means to manufacture such weapons .
14 Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ .
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