Example sentences of "now [pers pn] be [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm spending a small fortune on wine now . |
| 2 | Yes , it might , it might , but , but , but now you 're getting a little bit , you 're getting a bit too , too sophisticated now , we 're going to come on to that later . |
| 3 | If by now you 're expecting a Manic Miner ish run-round-platforms-collecting-things game , you 're absolutely … |
| 4 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 5 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 6 | And then So now you 're travelling a little bit too close , your eyes are glued on the back of the vehicle in front , what 's the sort of feeling you get ? |
| 7 | Now she 's opening a new science block as part of a two million pound development at Barnwood Park School in Gloucester . |
| 8 | Look at that she 's scoffed a Picnic bar , now she 's scoffing a bloody Crunchie ! |
| 9 | Now she was discovering a wider world . |
| 10 | So now she was having a splendid time visiting friends , and who could blame her ? |
| 11 | Now she was gaining a whole new world view . |
| 12 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 13 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 14 | Ah , now we 're getting a little bit toward the meat here . |
| 15 | Yes , that is reasonable now we 're creating a continuous one , is n't it . |
| 16 | Now we 're doing a little bit of reversion and it is much regret by God for five years I have negotiated budgets with the Labour group against intense opposition to Conservatives and central government to improve the services in Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | We 've got him breeding pheasants and partridges and now we 're proposing a gipsy site . |
| 18 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 19 | Now we are entering a third period of change : the shift from the command-and-control organization , the organization of departments and divisions , to the information-based organization , the organization of knowledge specialists . |
| 20 | I remind him that it hit Grimsby bitterly between 1979 and 1981 , and now we are having a second dose of it , with the loss of Findus Ltd. and 900 jobs , and the shrinking of labour forces by major employers . |
| 21 | Now we were approaching a steep ravine . |
| 22 | Even now they are realising a new dream . |
| 23 | Even now they are realising a new dream . |
| 24 | Now they 're facing a new challenge . |
| 25 | But now they 're having a heated debate about script changes , so I grabbed the chance to escape for a few minutes . ’ |
| 26 | Now it is making a third bid for influence . |
| 27 | Now it is becoming a powerful factor in the new , frenzied politics of Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | ‘ Now it 's becoming a big sport here , ’ says Paul . |
| 29 | Last month he starred as the poor man 's hero in the film Robin Hood and now he 's playing a wealthy land agent in Granada TV 's new series , The Real Charlotte , which starts next Monday . |
| 30 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |