Example sentences of "provided [pers pn] with [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 2 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 3 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
| 4 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 5 | There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career . |
| 6 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 7 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 8 | The voyage of the good ship ‘ Ceilidh ’ in September provided us with many lessons in seamanship and Christian living . |