Example sentences of "[v-ing] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to be sure whether these were new recruits to the Krishnapur field , perhaps freed from the victorious siege of the feringhees somewhere else on the plain , or simply men who had deserted during the rains returning now to finish the job . |
| 2 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 3 | It is this glistening miriad of impressions , moods , intuitions , intimations , dreams and visitations which I am seeking now to catch in these orderly lines of print . |
| 4 | I 've had s still operating now to present day , I do n't know . |
| 5 | ‘ And they see us — and seeing us garbed thus , they grow ever more surly , refusing now to carry out all but the most basic tasks . |
| 6 | Turning now to design it is important to answer the question of which damper produces the " best " single-step response from a given system . |
| 7 | Turning now to benefit payments , marriage can , in some cases , affect existing arrangements . |
| 8 | Turning now to antitrust policy , a major difference among advanced industrial countries in respect of their policy towards collusion lies in whether collusion is in most instances per se illegal , as in the US , or whether attention is directed at appraising the results of collusive behaviour , as for example in the UK . |
| 9 | Turning now to consider the other main group of younger household carers , there are an increasing number , currently about 11 per cent , of elderly people living with younger people , usually daughters and sons-in-law . |
| 10 | Deciding now to take up the practice of law again , Herbert thought that the best opening would be to build up a country practice . |
| 11 | To avoid any more personal suffering I say he should contemplate going now to give his successor the chance to build a proper team to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 12 | When she looked back at the window there was the face again ; but it was attempting now to smile . |
| 13 | We 're going to stay with racing now to see a sporting dream come true … |
| 14 | ‘ Can , ’ she corrected him , striving now to make her own voice sound as even as his . |
| 15 | ‘ You have the advantage of me , ’ striving now to get the situation back under control , she spoke in her frostiest voice . |
| 16 | In moving now to consider the fate of the third PNP aim — that concerned with the promotion of ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ — we stress the close connection with our discussion of curriculum in the previous chapter . |
| 17 | — She tried to shut them out but it was as if one memory had set free another : they came clamouring now to torment and bewilder her . |
| 18 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 19 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 20 | I sort of start running now to find a way out quick , but this wire fence goes all the way down to the wall at the other end and I ca n't find no door in it . |
| 21 | She could n't stop crying now to save her life . |
| 22 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 23 | Obviously they 're starting now to pick the bits off one by one . |
| 24 | By February of 1825 neither Taylor 's nor Fleming 's Levels had " struck-home " and Barratt , starting now to have doubts about the latter , suspended driving until the elusive vein was cut in Taylor 's , and when doing so , perhaps , shedding some light on the matter . |
| 25 | Spinning round , kicking a heap of empty cider bottles out of her way , she raced back towards the entrance , not stopping now to feel her way , cannoning off the walls in the darkness . |
| 26 | She had heard that my father was preparing now to go to Somerset to be with the other Hastings folk . |
| 27 | I am trying now to wind down that project in favour of others , and am asking those who have helped me to take upon themselves what I have been doing , and find homes for their old journals — in libraries , universities and elsewhere . |
| 28 | A strange man indeed , disdaining now to join the wedding party escorting her and her bridegroom to their carriage but going off on his own down one of the narrow churchyard pathways , towards the dressmaker Miss Adeane . |
| 29 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |