Example sentences of "[prep] now [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stays behind now with the old men , women and children while the rest of the village puts to sea for nine months . " |
| 2 | The three two lurchers and a Staffordshire bull terrier are being cared for now by the RSPCA workers who believe they had n't eaten for at least a month . |
| 3 | As far as the as far as A level as far as A level plays are concerned I think with had them on the stage before now over the last five ten years as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 4 | From now to the end of the year we can expect governments to make a big effort to secure a settlement . |
| 5 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 6 | Who would even remember my name twelve months from now in the midst of another winter , unless in the context of some old dirty joke or dated ribaldry ? |
| 7 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 8 | From now until the end of July there was an endless stream of invitations to balls , picnics , garden parties , receptions . |
| 9 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 10 | From now until the year 2000 , the arts calendar is silting up with festivals , memorials and monumental events . |
| 11 | From now until the end of November , you can take advantage of two unique offers . |
| 12 | Although the very long-term future plays a part in present thinking ( for example , concern about the burden which present promises of pension levels may impose on future generations of working age ) , it is the shorter-term prospects — from now until the end of the century — which mainly concern policy-makers , the caring professions , informal carers of infirm elderly people , and older people themselves . |
| 13 | From now until the time of Magnus the Pious there are no Emperors and the lands becomes increasingly divided . |
| 14 | I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent . |
| 15 | The venture has been conspicuously successful in giving a platform to Scottish musicians , and in building audience momentum around the country , although the break from now until the autumn could threaten the latter achievement . |
| 16 | The exhibition will go from now , will last from now until the twenty-second of October when all the memorabilia will be on show then . |
| 17 | " " You can try , El-ahrairah , and if you succeed I will multiply your people everywhere and no one will be able to keep them out of a vegetable garden from now till the end of the world . |
| 18 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 19 | The letter I am referring to now at the moment is a particular token instance of letter as a lexical item , a general conceptual type , a codified abstraction . |
| 20 | Above all , there was disappointment at Hitler 's remarks that he had made full provision for the coming winter — the logical conclusion being drawn ‘ that the struggle in the east , in contrast to the hopes entertained up to now by the overwhelming majority of the population , can not be ended before the next winter ’ . |
| 21 | Yeah , but with some of them , how are you gon na now at the outset , whether you 're gon na be off work for |
| 22 | Till now on the stroke of midnight , cold on the stroke of midnight , the tip of one finger touched it , the trigger at last was hers . |
| 23 | Judging by the mood prevalent up till now in the DDR the planned freedom of travel will scarcely influence those who want to leave because their patience is at an end and their trust in the government has been destroyed . |
| 24 | She put her mouth over it , licking , sucking , dribbling , both of us unaware by now of the child sleeping three or four paces across the half-dark room . |
| 25 | All of us should know by now of the decision taken at the special church meeting on 13th May to go ahead with the purchase of the Camphill building . |
| 26 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 27 | You will have heard by now about the Government 's proposals for the reorganisation of local government boundaries . |
| 28 | You must all have heard by now about the Canterbury girls latest ‘ Fight the Flab ’ scheme ? ( ‘ speak for yourself Samantha ’ the rest of the team shouts in disgust ! ) |
| 29 | Yes this colourful expedition requires rather more than the obligatory three points of contact , but it 's well worth seeking out , despite the alarm bells which may well have been triggered by now in the more squeamish reader . |
| 30 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |