Example sentences of "[prep] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 2 | it seems like now to tell you at last I 've come to terms with it now , I 've really |
| 3 | If you want to be one of the crowd , there 's no time like now to book a piece of the action . |
| 4 | We shall tell the full story of Charles Frederick Titford in due course ; enough for now to say that he would be outlived by his widowed mother , who was 80 when she died at 24 Warner Street , Lower Holloway , on 4 March 1902 , ‘ Widow of Benjamin Titford , Commercial clerk ’ . |
| 5 | Tony Martin increased his lead in the Ulster jockeys championship when he made all the running on Bye For Now to take a division of the Mares Maiden Race . |
| 6 | No one knows it better than you — we 've both pledged our own valuables before now to keep our archers from deserting . |
| 7 | Will be allowed in just about a minute from now to do some air guitarring . |
| 8 | AMERICA expects to wake up two days from now to find that it has a new President . |
| 9 | Unless your father wishes to detain me , I must be in Nanking three hours from now to meet Major Karr . ’ |
| 10 | But where was the resolve a year ago , and where will it be a year from now to address fundamental inequalities that date back to slavery ? |
| 11 | The bass trombone can therefore be relied upon now to have a compass from E natural below the bass stave to B flat above the tenor stave . |
| 12 | While there have been papers and reviews aplenty , no single book has been available until now to embrace the microbial populations which flourish and decline , evolve and stagnate , as co-terrestrials with man and the other animals . |
| 13 | Strangely , it has taken the nursing education establishment in Britain until now to recognise the value of debate , and the need to educate nurses for their own sake , as well as in the interests of patient care . |
| 14 | The idea took shape some five years ago in the back room of London 's Bull & Gate , and it 's taken until now to get it on the road — for 32 days only . |
| 15 | We are surprised FIFA have waited until now to make their high-risk ruling , particularly as Northern Ireland can not now qualify for the World Cup finals . ’ |
| 16 | It really was a bit much , she thought , to leave it until now to make trouble about the course . |
| 17 | It was , I thought , a measure of her self-control that she had waited until now to express her annoyance . |
| 18 | I would like to now to call on Steve , Dick 's namesake , regional secretary of Midland region , to move the vote of thanks . |
| 19 | Quite noticeable ones , I should imagine she has n't found it necessary up to now to make any special record of the other small vatic events — gasps , hesitations , groans , sighs — that the conversation must have involved . |
| 20 | Finally , from its privileged vantage point to diagnose any deterioration in the national character , the National Front described its own understanding of pre-war social realities in a leaflet offering advice to schoolchildren on Now to Spot a Red Teacher ( 1977 ) : ‘ Tell the Red Teacher the poor whites during the Great Slump did n't commit muggings on defenceless old ladies . ’ |
| 21 | So what should we spend our pocket money on now to make a fortune in 40 years ' time ? |
| 22 | ‘ Apart from all that , if somebody heard him scream , why did they wait till now to say so ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 24 | He had decided by now to draw the water out of Charles Roe 's old Deep Mine to the depth of the Deep Level . |
| 25 | She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box . |
| 26 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 27 | If Hank had done something particularly dreadful , either Donna Frizzell or some other nosey parker would have been on her doorstep by now to tell her about it . |
| 28 | It should come as no surprise by now to hear that D2 is a protein found in synapses , one of the three different receptor proteins for dopamine . |
| 29 | We should have produced campaigns by now to identify and bring to justice the inevitable sanctions-busters . |
| 30 | Nigel had got her measure enough by now to know that he would never be allowed to insist on anything , so he approached the subject carefully . |