Example sentences of "now for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 2 | It led to a dialogue with Montefiore , with my telling him about my friend who has had AIDS now for six years and who , thanks to AZT , is still alive . |
| 3 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 4 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 5 | I mean they 've been on strike now for six months . |
| 6 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 7 | Street , and the bottom lamp has been out now for six weeks . |
| 8 | We have men scouring the woods now for possible footprints . |
| 9 | Ring 0752 600400 now for immediate cover or return this Application Form today while time is still on your side . |
| 10 | In all the years , and I 've been it 's secretary now for fifteen years and I have n't had any trouble . |
| 11 | Can we have a break now for fifteen minutes ? |
| 12 | The reasons for Wales 's clarity of thinking are not difficult to see : ministers more interested in practical achievement than ideology ; an NHS management team together now for five years ; and , above all , a district structure and population the size of just one of England 's 14 regions . |
| 13 | I have played here in England now for five or six years and no one has complained about the way I swing the ball . |
| 14 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 15 | Now for small taxes ( i.e. , evaluating at ) , the steady growth condition means that , if , then and local stability implies . |
| 16 | There should be enough cream there now for four to six weeks on a twice weekly basis , but if you run out just give a ring in . |
| 17 | I 've stopped smoking now for four month . |
| 18 | Technological change has led to a de-skilling of industrial work , so that a major requirement of many employers is now for cheap , non-unionized , semi-skilled labour ( Massey 1979 ; Wood 1982 ) . |
| 19 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 20 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 21 | They have been in Perth now for nine years and in business as McKays for three , providing , as Lesley McKay explained , ‘ accounting services to companies that have grown big enough to need an accountant or finance director , but not big enough to afford one full-time ’ . |
| 22 | We 're aiming now for simpler patterns and more muted backgrounds in platform decoration ; we want to promote a sense of calmness and a quiet backdrop . |
| 23 | " Now for that lesson I promised you . |
| 24 | Now for that coke to burn in this furnace what must we add ? |
| 25 | Clare thought of telling her what it would have meant to her as a young girl to have a nicely furnished room to herself — what it would mean to her now for that matter — but sensed that such remarks would serve no useful purpose . |
| 26 | And now for that question : |
| 27 | Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese . |
| 28 | He 's not gon na get any dinner now for that . |
| 29 | she was in this hospita , the , the City Hospital in Chester which is not used now for that . |
| 30 | It 's a long ti It 's a car park now for that pub on the end there . |