Example sentences of "[prep] now [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 2 | It was pretty rough at one time , but whatever it 's like now it will be better , surely , than some posh hotel . ’ |
| 3 | He was careful not to make the connection too often in his mind , the idea was bizarre , better not to believe it , certainly it must n't be spoken of , but at moments such as now he could n't push it away — and did n't want to . |
| 4 | At Collington Chapel Lane is closed until Friday cos they 're putting a new sewer in there and traffic 's being diverted there along Main Street and at Totton there 's roadworks on Nottingham Road at the junction with Attenborough Lane delays likely there especially at busy times that 'll do us for now we 'll update the traffic for you again in half an hours time . |
| 5 | That 'll do us for now we 'll update the traffic again for you in half an hour 's time radio Nottingham F M one O three point eight and ninety five point five Nottinghamshire 's favourite station with the weather forecast for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 6 | Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues . |
| 7 | No doubt experiments that unambiguously answer Baker 's fundamental criticism will be performed , in which pigeons are taken to release sites which are clearly unfamiliar ; but for now we must suspend judgement . |
| 8 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 9 | For now we can proceed in terms of dealing with a fundamental social order which can be usefully described as disorganized capitalism . |
| 10 | For now we can only hope that both he and the government appreciate the industry 's need for a firm and steady hand at the tiller . |
| 11 | For now we will restrict ourselves to data on decision making and publication times . |
| 12 | For now they 'll carry on living at Stoke Mandeville and Adis will continue with his treatment … taking each day as it comes |
| 13 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 14 | ‘ Later we can calm her , but for now she will continue like this until she grows tired . |
| 15 | But for now it would have to do . |
| 16 | For now I 'll leave this in your hands . |
| 17 | But for now I 'll and you 're happy to start with us any time yeah ? |
| 18 | But for now I 'll go along with you . |
| 19 | In an ideal world , there would be no need for either , but for now I would rather see the frustration expressed in these light-hearted terms than in the sort of man-hating bitterness that has given feminism such a bad name . |
| 20 | For now I would like to describe two lesser known parasites under the letter E that fishkeepers should be aware of : |
| 21 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 22 | If it 's a thing that the public thinks is wrong or that is n't really , truly , basically artistic it 'll fade away anyway ten years from now nobody 'll think about it . |
| 23 | Seven years from now they will be Britain 's top importers . |
| 24 | A decade from now we 'll wonder what the fuss was about . |
| 25 | A decade from now we might , as you suggest , be wondering what all the fuss was about . |
| 26 | You 're talking about about two months from now we 'd have our first year anniversary . |
| 27 | In five years time from now it will have developed into an all powerful , constitutionally independent institution responsible for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 28 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 29 | In a minute from now you could be saying , I risked death . |
| 30 | Sixty years from now you will bless him . |