Example sentences of "[adv] to now " in BNC.
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| 1 | General skills and abilities we 're down to now . |
| 2 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 3 | ‘ Where 're you off to now ? ’ he said , not allowing his annoyance to show . |
| 4 | ‘ So , ’ she said brightly , ‘ where are you off to now that we 've finished shooting The Viking ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So where are you heading off to now ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | ‘ So , where are you off to now ? ’ he asked her over his shoulder . |
| 7 | And where are you off to now ? |
| 8 | So where we off to now ? |
| 9 | Where we off to now ? |
| 10 | Wanted to put her arm around her , hug her , what the hell had super-brat been up to now ? |
| 11 | Autism is a very profound cognitive deficit indeed , and everything that I have said up to now entails that a person whose thinking significantly lacks an holistic character , and lacks the related qualities of directedness , inhibition and co-ordination , will be profoundly affected . |
| 12 | Rektum will spend the money on reassembling their career in a less pressurised climate : up to now their recordings have only been available on bootleg cassettes , while their live performances have taken place exclusively underground . |
| 13 | Up to now they have been well looked after by the Pakistan government and established in villages of 50,000 to 60,000 people . |
| 14 | The OFT found no evidence that Bupa has abused its buying power up to now , but felt that allowing the takeover could increase the risk of abuse . |
| 15 | The Government up to now has ruled out direct compensation for the 1,200 haemophiliacs , 200 of whom are children . |
| 16 | Up to now Romanians have rationalised their predicament in different ways . |
| 17 | THINKING on economic reform in Eastern Europe has , up to now , drawn heavily on experience from the third world . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose I should have said up to now , ’ Mark replied disarmingly . |
| 19 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 20 | ‘ Willoughby , you 've given us a brief outline of a frankly hap-hazard sort of life up to now . |
| 21 | ‘ Not much evidence of it up to now . |
| 22 | What 's he up to now ? |
| 23 | Up to now he had been constantly aware of its dark presence , encircling the village , but nobody had ever suggested that he should enter it . |
| 24 | In the last reports they were able to compile , in April 1940 , Sopade observers were still noting that ‘ many prefer to keep Hitler than to envisage what could come after a defeat ’ , that fear of chaos and revolution still predominated among the bourgeoisie , but that ‘ there is no doubt that up to now the majority of the people is still convinced of Germany 's victory ’ . |
| 25 | Above all , there was disappointment at Hitler 's remarks that he had made full provision for the coming winter — the logical conclusion being drawn ‘ that the struggle in the east , in contrast to the hopes entertained up to now by the overwhelming majority of the population , can not be ended before the next winter ’ . |
| 26 | This was concealed up to now by a few intuitive master strokes , the lucky results of risks that were in themselves unjustified , and the short-comings of our enemies . |
| 27 | ‘ The most worrying aspect of the whole thing ’ , it concluded , ‘ is probably that most people 's comrades , even those who up to now have believed unwaveringly , have lost faith in the Führer . ’ |
| 28 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |
| 29 | ‘ What Are the Royals Up To Now ? ’ changed abruptly to ‘ Will Soccer Violence Spread to Gaelic Football ? ’ as he turned a mental page . |
| 30 | Up to now it has been run as a cost centre rather than a profit maker , but the Broadcasting Act specified change . |