Example sentences of "now [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thakat tables ’ ( from £450 ) were originally used in India as beds and now make generously sized low tables . |
| 2 | The completion of the Group 's work represents a considerable achievement , and it is on the basis of the Group 's advice on attainment targets and programmes of study that we now make jointly our formal proposals for key stages 2 to 4 in accordance with the provisions laid down in the Education Reform Act . |
| 3 | They flourished by eating the haplochromines — which now make up only about one per cent of the catch . |
| 4 | People threatened with repossession because of mortgage debts now make up one in seven of their cases . |
| 5 | While a range of jobs now make up this sector , they neatly divide into seasonal , temporary or casual work on the one hand , and , on the other , work contracted for a fixed period of time or for whatever time it takes to complete a defined task . |
| 6 | Vegetarians who exclude fish and poultry as well as red meat , now make up 3.7 per cent of the population — an increase of 23 per cent since 1988 and 76 per cent since 1984 . |
| 7 | And he , together with Big Band Bear and Bathtime Bear , now make up Matchbox 's complete family … |
| 8 | However , the gap between the sexes is narrowing : men now make up 57% of students in higher education , compared with 63% in 1980–1 and 67% in 1970–1 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 27 ) . |
| 9 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 10 | ‘ Now make up your minds where to go for lunch . |
| 11 | At the other extreme , Andy Cohen , president of Beverley Hills Motoring Accessories , says that firms now make so many hot-rod components that would-be hot-rodders no longer need even the skeleton of a Studebaker to begin work . |
| 12 | We do not have to decide whether to keep in bulk or alternatively to sample , particular instance papers which electronic data handling techniques now make potentially useful to the historian in ways that they simply were not before . |
| 13 | ‘ Now sit up . ’ |
| 14 | Hold your breath , now sit forward a couple of inches and now tense up all over the body , tighter , tighter . |
| 15 | ‘ Now sit down . ’ |
| 16 | Now sit down and do n't say a word ! |
| 17 | Now sit down , Edna , and eat your tea . |
| 18 | Now sit down and Ah will explain just why I am interested in this Mario Ángel Gómez . ’ |
| 19 | Now sit down . ’ |
| 20 | Now sit down again . ’ |
| 21 | Now SIT DOWN . ’ |
| 22 | Now sit down and just calm |
| 23 | come on , right time is nearly twenty past , now sit down and get on with it what ? there are come on Deana you get on you 're |
| 24 | That 's it , now sit down a minute ! |
| 25 | Nobody else , now sit down . |
| 26 | Now sit down and throw your dice . |
| 27 | The closest town of any size to the prison was over twelve miles away , across barren land now unfit even for farming . |
| 28 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 29 | Now declare how far you wish to throw the Doom Diver . |
| 30 | Now declare how far you want to fire the mortar shell . |