Example sentences of "now and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away . |
| 2 | Daffodil , however , had fastened hers to her cleavage , the red , white and gold popping out now and again past the long-haired chinchillas . |
| 3 | I stood and watched them for a while , training my binoculars on them and seeming , now and again in the shifting images of light , to discern structures around them . |
| 4 | Looked upwards to the sky : and there , up there , glimpsed now and then between the moving boughs , was the constellation of the great bear … and the pole star . |
| 5 | It is not a bad idea to say ‘ thank you ’ every now and then for the good things in your life . |
| 6 | Her performance was only spoiled now and then by the strange proximity of the journal editor , who occasionally showed up , exhausted , by her side … or was he her partner ? |