Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was astonished when we began walking down the now weed-strewn path to feel a familiar feeling of fear and expectation . |
| 2 | Oh mum rings up every now and again , father is driving me batty |
| 3 | Then , riding on , he stiffly dismounted , avoiding the kicking of disabled horses , and stooped to pick up the now trampled and muddied Lion Rampant standard of Scotland . |
| 4 | The Führer was no longer present among his people ; he played the part increasingly of a deus ex machina , turning up every now and then in Berlin or Munich , but mostly a distant war-lord conducting military affairs in faraway parts but scarcely having any real further contact with the German people themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you again , ’ she said and handed back the now empty can , ‘ but I 've got to find my friend , the weirdo in the hat . |
| 6 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 7 | He groped in a pocket and pulled out a now useless packet of cigarettes . |
| 8 | Ah no , it 's a it just lets down every now and again |
| 9 | A number of them are patched with squares of the ubiquitous plywood which is also employed to board up the now empty , adjoining , caretaker 's house . |
| 10 | Then he turned , and with a little gesture of farewell crossed the highway and headed back towards Lima , a small , shambling figure glancing back every now and then in search of a truck that would give him a lift . |
| 11 | Pull out the now . |
| 12 | I read articles in women 's magazines that began : ‘ We all need to cut down every now and then ’ , or ‘ We all hate something about ourselves , whether it 's our stomach or our nose ’ … but do we ? |
| 13 | The ice and snow would disappear from the mountains , and as the new plants from the more temperate regions of the south migrated northwards , replacing the arctic plants , these latter would crawl up the now uncovered mountains , and likewise be driven northward to the present arctic shores . |