Example sentences of "[verb] now [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 We were concerned that er what 's happening now in the Gulf is n't a simple issue , and it needs to be dealt with very carefully .
2 Where the Tories have lost recent by-elections , the second placed party has won , and Mike Potter holds that place now in the Richmond constituency .
3 She had completely forgotten now about the rest of the class .
4 Comparative testing of cost-effectiveness has led to most newly-built housing areas being designed now around the 30 km/h provision with associated speed-reducing measures .
5 So er that has to just wait now until the next meeting .
6 Owned now by the National Trust it is a delight to visit .
7 He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path .
8 Only two slogans appear now on the billboards .
9 Their progress over the next two weeks will solve the Guineas mystery , but that is of little concern to connections of Dr Devious , who heads now for the Kentucky Derby ( for which he is 10–1 from 12–1 ) in Louisville on May 2 and returns to Epsom for the Ever Ready Derby in June .
10 He did n't move from the middle of the hall , but watched Maggie standing in a doorway to the right , and she turned her face to him , laughing now as the voice from the other room came to him , saying , ‘ Male or female ? ’
11 The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year .
12 The paper will focus now on the use of electronic communication in the scientific community — an academic environment where e-mail could well constitute an important source of scholarly correspondence .
13 In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement .
14 I concentrated now on the driver .
15 Selection interviews are generally carried now in the early summer to permit research to start in autumn ( freeing the staff of the SOED 's Research and Intelligence Unit to concentrate on identifying and preparing next year 's round of research priorities … ) .
16 They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates .
17 Davide was walking now down the street which intersected with the woman 's shop ; she still gave sheets of pink blotting paper for change , and a photograph of her son was pinned up on the shelf behind her till ; the news was that he was in the army , but Davide was ashamed to inquire what that report concealed .
18 It lies now beneath the waters of the lake , about ten miles out from the shore .
19 This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above .
20 Returning now with the lemonade , she gave Aubrey a quick glance of appraisal .
21 Returning now to the referral and investigation work undertaken by the team between October 1987 and March 1988 , Table 3 provides some detail about the range of activities on which the total time of 253 hours was spent and shows that the bulk of the activity time was spent in direct contact with children and/or their caregivers .
22 Returning now to the Long Stable , we enter the Upper Paddock , and first observe a hot-water apparatus , so arranged as to supply practically a constant supply .
23 Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening .
24 Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation .
25 Returning now to the urban scale , we can illustrate our approach first with Davis 's study of a small town in Southern Italy .
26 Even Cassie , used now to the small eccentricities of her home , did not think this likely .
27 But Adam ignored her , glancing round at Fand , who approached now with the other Women .
28 He was driving now across the open headland towards the fringe of pine trees which bordered the North Sea .
29 And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all .
30 drowse now in the warm
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