Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The looser structure of many Languedocian and meridional towns , with their consuls and syndics , never developed in the south-west , and from 1261 onwards the tendencies with Bordeaux showed towards becoming a city-republic were tempered by ducal intervention to appoint its mayor and jurats . |
| 2 | Beyond that lay the Germans ' barbed wire , and beyond that still the Germans , waiting for them in their trenches . |
| 3 | This was a success and at last even The Times , under pressure from rising costs , succumbed . |
| 4 | The party continued after Bibit had returned to his cell , and at 2.45 a.m. the gates had been opened to allow the delivery of further stocks of alcohol . |
| 5 | But Eileen did n't sleep , and by nine o'clock the pain had become stronger . |
| 6 | During the period of Tatar domination from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth centuries , Russia under the Golden Horde had been the most westerly province of the great Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan ; but from 1582 onwards the tide was turned and the European Slavs rapidly found themselves rulers of a vast colonial domain stretching across Asia to the northern Pacific . |
| 7 | But by ten o'clock the mist had gone , burned off by the sun which shone from a clear blue sky . |