Example sentences of "now [verb] just " in BNC.

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1 Now to see just how effective a daggerboard is , let's look at these two boats beating .
2 THE Bears suffered their second defeat of the season in Scotland and have now won just one of their opening three Second Division Gold Cup matches .
3 After years of hard work , the house now looks just how we always wanted it
4 Lewis now has just under 21,000 people ( almost 6,000 of them in the town of Stornoway ) , and Harris nearly 3,000 .
5 Roberts , who now needs just three winners to reach 150 for the season , is 22 ahead of Pat Eddery in the jockeys ' title race .
6 She was young-old : a brittle blonde whose face had probably been beautiful but now sagged just a bit , was creased just a bit , and had grown a lip of wattle behind the chin .
7 In 1892 Suttons listed 169 different asters , they now list just 14 ; in 1894 Webbs listed 15 nasturtiums , Unwins now list five .
8 Leading shares now earn just 6 per cent gross and pay dividends of 4 per cent .
9 He has now missed just two of Taylor 's 33 games , including the 1991 defeat by Germany .
10 Now wait just a minute , ’ put in Uncle Alfred .
11 Now wait just a goddam minute .
12 So here they were , on the first floor of the old lodge , which was now used just as a bothy .
13 Clenching his teeth , George had to remind himself that he had now got just the endorsement he wanted .
14 Taking a booking and issuing a personalised ticket now takes just one minute compared with up to 10 minutes using a manual system .
15 The audience was given no hint that he was envisaging the terms as an antithesis , let alone that he was feeling his way towards significant categories of thought , although from various notes from the winter of 1869–70 it is clear that he was now doing just that .
16 Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow .
17 Now having just walked away er up towards erm er crossing end , there 's the .
18 Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call .
19 He had changed his parson 's clothes and now looked just like the young gentleman she had first met at Trantridge .
20 Spencer 's , who were established in 1927 , now employ just over two hundred at their factory in Banbury .
21 United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games .
22 ‘ As to the outside world , I now take just sufficient interest in what goes on to be thankful that , though I am deaf , I can vote . ’
23 I now realize just how much I have been professionally sustained , over many years , by his example and how much I learnt from his convictions .
24 Changes must be made to the attack for the first Test at Old Trafford next month but pacemen Andy Caddick , Paul Jarvis and Chris Lewis now have just one more chance to prove they should remain for the Ashes opener .
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