Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] the [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 I even had to pay someone to cut the grass the other day — I wanted to do that .
2 A thin cream called red bole is then painted over the gesso to provide a rich base on which to lay the leaf The area to be covered is then dampened with a very diluted solution of rabbit skin glue , before the gold leaf is carefully positioned and laid down .
3 And between 1981–83 , when he was number one in the world rankings , he played in every United States match , helping them to win the trophy the first two years and even competing in their historic relegation match against Ireland in Dublin after they had lost to Argentina in the first round in 1983 .
4 Ultimately , this led her to challenge the way the professionals conceived Tom 's needs .
5 If he expected her to fawn the way the Customs officer had done he was going to be disappointed .
6 They did not work directly on the draw : rather on so lessening his degree of fade that it would be that much easier for him to move the ball the other way when circumstances dictated .
7 In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection .
8 When they arrive give them the name of an animal and ask them to make the noise the animal makes to find similar animals .
9 Mr Hopkin then took us to see the artifactsin the Store and Refurbishment building , down steep steps into the vaults .
10 The death of Gay News provoked a considerable growth in out-of-London calls for information no longer available in that magazine 's supplement , while at the same time making it far more difficult for us to obtain the information the callers needed and throwing an internal emphasis on that side of our work .
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