Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] now " in BNC.
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1 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
2 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
4 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
5 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
6 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |