Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days
2 English scholars , all classicists or ex-classicists , hurried to catch up and prove themselves the equals of the Germans in philological and textual skill .
3 He was shedding his wet things as he spoke , and a glance at me indicated who was supposed to hurry off and get him the hot drink .
4 The advice was was not to hang on and see what the May elections er looked like .
5 We tried to get through and ask him the question on air .
6 Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options .
7 What reason could we produce to allow that she may have the capacity to act autonomously while denying her the capacity-to-act-autonomously ?
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