Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] now [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry . |
| 2 | He says I 'm very sad that now Oxford is a centre for imprisoning more refugees in this counntry . |
| 3 | ‘ Ruthven 's murdered and now Irvine ! ’ |
| 4 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 5 | And they quote those precedences as a justification for what they 're doing and of course that then , then the whole kind of compulsive repetition thing becomes very very conscious because now people are saying you know , we 're doing this er because of historical precedence , because of erm and tradition . |
| 6 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 7 | One by one , the royal marriages have come crashing down — Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips divorced , the Duke and Duchess of York separated and now Prince Charles and Princess Diana 's marriage is exposed as a sham . |
| 8 | I will have to edit it now Kerslake , BATTY and now Strandli |
| 9 | Previous theatre work had been tiring but now cine-variety was exhausting . |
| 10 | I know Cora-Beth wants us to get engaged and now Madeleine 's turned me down , she 'll expect me to propose . |
| 11 | ( The whole mime has been fluid and continuous but now ROS moves forward and brings it to a pause . |
| 12 | The leading Democrat in Sacramento for almost 13 years , he has run rings round a couple of wooden Republican governors — first George Deukmejian and now Pete Wilson . |
| 13 | Hywel is silent and now Elizabeth is silent too . |
| 14 | Rachel had been quiet but now Carrie could hear her stirring , the growing sounds of protest coming through the open door . |