Example sentences of "[verb] now [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aged 79 , Major Bourne-Arton lives now as then in the former rectory at West Tanfield , near Ripon . |
| 2 | Dylan Thomas would act now and then to pay the bills . |
| 3 | The two men looked at each other for a moment , no doubt exchanging of those wordless communications that women contrive now and then . |
| 4 | Cook in the centre of the oven , basting now and then . |
| 5 | Cook in the centre of the oven , basting now and then . |
| 6 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 7 | I asked , as we plodded back up the hill , she clinging to my arm , pausing now and then for breath . |
| 8 | Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows , pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on . |
| 9 | Young couples strolled with their arms round each other , pausing now and then to kiss ; older couples stopped to greet friends and while the women talked their husbands stood by looking foolishly amiable . |
| 10 | He wrote in a small , neat , but cramped hand , pausing now and then to refer to one or other of the books and papers spread on his desk . |
| 11 | " I would work much harder if you came now and then so that I could tell you of my progress . " |
| 12 | Grill for 4–5 minutes in total , turning now and then , until apple is semi-tender and the onion is cooked . |
| 13 | The Hall was surrounded by heavy , low clouds , which opened now and then to show the grim , cold moor and its wet , grey rocks . |
| 14 | Frankie was rubbing his hands together and Chopper merely nodded now and then with a silly expression on his face . |
| 15 | They were more common than the spirals of the indigo snails that Sycorax had once used now and then , and a grave hazard the islanders understood always to avoid . |
| 16 | She rested now and then under the shade of the cypresses and watched other tourists labouring in the heat . |
| 17 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 18 | He boasted now and then , but in a pub way , you know , a Welsh way , for fun . |
| 19 | By dumping the new arrivals less than a year later , BZW , chaired now as then by Sir Martin Jacomb , has shown up its American adventure for the opportunistic grab it was . |
| 20 | ‘ The stitches tweak now and then , but otherwise it 's not aching much . ’ |
| 21 | Andrew , we could meet now and then . |
| 22 | To his left , St Anthony lighthouse flashed at intervals , and far away to his right the sky was lit now and then by an arc of light from The Lizard . |
| 23 | The piste was crossed now and then by gullies of sand and ran along the foot of the escarpment , which towered several hundred feet above it to the left . |
| 24 | Um and then people say , oh yes I remember now and then they tell a slightly different story . |
| 25 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 26 | Faint little star , half hidden , revealed now and then by the wind ; flickering pin-point in a whirling galaxy , the prayer of navigators … see me home . |
| 27 | Night marches now and then to keep the men fit — not exactly a picnic doing twenty miles at night over cobbles . |
| 28 | He may stray now and then , but it does n't mean anything … that sort of thing is to be expected , men being as they are , with different needs and … um … appetites ? |
| 29 | This almost parental instinct to protect now and then leads Ackroyd into dangerous waters . |
| 30 | The butcher lets me have a pound of dripping now and then and I can make it last . |