Example sentences of "[vb infin] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should , therefore , act now to take advantage of a unique investment opportunity . |
| 2 | We must act now to stop this happening . |
| 3 | Rather than revel in the recovery in house prices , therefore , a bold government would act now to prevent the next house-price boom , and thereby help make the longed-for economic recovery more durable . |
| 4 | Given the present serious market situation and the fact that revenue from spirits is falling in real terms , the Chancellor must act now to remove or reduce the differentials between the excise duty on spirits and those on beer and wine . |
| 5 | It makes me shudder now to think of it , how we waded into those strawberries and did n't suffer any ill effects afterwards . |
| 6 | There is something you and I can do now to change this . |
| 7 | More than seventy years after his death and after all the books and shows which have been dedicated to him , one might expect that nothing of any importance would appear now to improve the idea we have of his life and his work . |
| 8 | ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’ |
| 9 | That conference was also memorable , of course , for other quite separate reasons , as I would like now to explain . |
| 10 | Thank you very much and we 'd like now to answer any questions that you may have . |
| 11 | I 'd like now to have a word with all the Lab staff in the library and then Inspector Massingham and I will start the preliminary interviews : Howarth , the two women , Angela Foley and Brenda Pridmore , Blakelock , Middlemass and any of the others without a firm alibi . |
| 12 | I spoke of the reality of your position , and I would like now to expand on that reality . ’ |
| 13 | It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray . |
| 14 | Will you decide now to make every effort to improve your marriage , however difficult ? |
| 15 | Later , there had been the scene she did n't want now to remember : |
| 16 | He did not attempt now to touch her . |
| 17 | Why do n't you have now to get to come over here . |
| 18 | It is , as I shall try now to show , a more powerful and persuasive conception of law than conventionalism , and a stronger challenge to law as integrity . |
| 19 | I must go now to pick him up from school . ’ |
| 20 | And although there are some MPs who think Clarke should go now to prevent any worse gaffes , it is only on past events rather than future possibilities that such decisions can be made . |
| 21 | The time flew and at three o'clock Madame Delon rose , saying that she must leave now to catch her bus . |
| 22 | I do not intend now to resurrect the metaphysical theory I said in Chapter 2 that we do not need . |
| 23 | It gave me even more of a feeling of why pick now to put me through this . |
| 24 | The other of a sadness I can hardly bear now to remember … |
| 25 | He may care now to listen carefully . |
| 26 | You can start now to get your , because this is your tree , this is your tree , here 's your branches , and then you start to get your twigs coming off , the way do , so , so and that also , you see that , that can link up with , like that ca n't it ? |