Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] this [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an hour or so of this the group swam slowly and steadily away in a north-easterly direction along the Boston deeps , and they were watched following this course until the light failed . |
| 2 | Through the open window floated the sound of traffic , and then above this the boom of Big Ben sounding the hour . |
| 3 | Is that the best you can do , after you 've waited so long ? " — and sometimes to this the voice would add irritatingly — " and after saying No to that darling actor ? " |
| 4 | But long before this the custom , in an atmosphere with a much lower religious charge than in the past and an age when , for all their obvious defects , standards of international conduct were higher than in the mêlée of the early sixteenth century , had lost any real significance . |
| 5 | In Zambia itself the ruling party , UNIP , took virtual control of the Times , but even before this the president had acquired the power to hire and fire its editor : a power he has used on a number of occasions . |
| 6 | A minor may sue for wages , piece work or for work as a servant ( s 47 of the 1984 Act ) , but apart from this a person under disability may not bring or defend proceedings , or counter-claim , except if a plantiff by his next friend or if a defendant by a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 1(1) , ( 2 ) ) . |
| 7 | But apart from this the broch wall showed only as a circle of raised turf , with a tumble of stones here and there . |