Example sentences of "now [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gardener who went blind four years ago is now successfully running his own business . |
| 2 | I have said before how much that seemed to fly in the face of my own upbringing , but I am now slowly getting there . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's nice , ’ Cowley agreed , glancing back at his own car , which was now slowly descending on the ramp . |
| 4 | It 's a year to within two days since he put the brave Londoner into a coma , from which he is only now slowly recovering . |
| 5 | It seemed for her that space itself was now slowly constricting . |
| 6 | It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light . |
| 7 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 8 | These leaders were now slowly becoming officers . |
| 9 | That 's the view of a man now arguably playing the best football of his career . |
| 10 | And yet , tonight , some demon that she did n't understand had driven him to an act she was sure he was now bitterly regretting . |
| 11 | Although she is very much a latecomer , Chile is now furiously building her Pacific interests and ambitions . |
| 12 | These are generalities which describe a culture only now properly coming into view . |
| 13 | Two young boys , of around ten years of age , drawing closer , then parallel , now swiftly passing , past . |
| 14 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 15 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 16 | The staff are now feverishly working on ways to persuade the building trade and public to pay for the publications . |
| 17 | Now so having issued B one , where 's it got to go ? |
| 18 | Apart from anything else you 're seconded to our team now so asking you to leave is n't entirely up to IMP any more . ’ |
| 19 | But then came the ‘ troubles ’ and a series of body blows from which the village is now only beginning to recover . |
| 20 | Indeed , behind the fears and accusations which surrounded the villainous working-class ‘ scorcher ’ , his emancipated female accomplice , and the unruly cyclist juror we can perhaps sense the vaguely incoherent feeling that the democratic bicycle — which was now only upsetting the respectable pleasures of a quiet Bank Holiday weekend in the countryside — was representative of a force that might be calculated to upset a few other things as well . |
| 21 | He had retired last year and was now only doing concert work . |
| 22 | And so on , right to the very end : ‘ As each story [ the reviewer is now only talking about Mr Herriot ] grinds to its predictable punchline , it is as if Herriot has ground a slightly stronger dose of the Nembutal that he uses to dope recalcitrant patients into each successive page . |
| 23 | With the publication of Slate a guide to the Llanberis area slate quarries , Snowdonia is now only missing two volumes in order to be relatively up to date in guidebook coverage terms . |
| 24 | The project has dealt with 340 clients from 45 different countries , but the project coordinator is now only working voluntarily , and the staff are heavily overloaded with casework . |
| 25 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 26 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 27 | Having believed initially that a good print should be available in the collection for ever , she was now constantly urging her colleagues to be more innovative . |
| 28 | The parish council was obliged to provide burial land and was now desperately looking for other sites . |
| 29 | Angel was now desperately trying to make his way as a professional polo player . |
| 30 | Amanda , of Stevenage , Herts , is now desperately trying to wean Cherie off . |