Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance for question one you could all answer it now . |
| 2 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 3 | Perhaps I had better do it now . ’ |
| 4 | If you want to be out on that pitch when the referee blows his whistle , you 'd better do it now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Some people think I am crazy but I thought I had better do it now while I have the chance . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , better finish it now , laddie , because no good will come of you marrying into that lot . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't mention him , if he could only see us now ! |
| 8 | Perhaps I had better hear it now . ’ |
| 9 | Decide on your garment pattern — do n't necessarily knit it now , but make a full sized diagram of the pieces you intend to decorate — yoke , collar , border or inserts . |
| 10 | Better end it now , a warning voice rang deep inside her brain . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps we 'd better leave you now , Philippe , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd better leave you now , ’ she muttered over her shoulder . |
| 13 | I had to promise them a press conference , and I thought you 'd rather do it now , old son . |
| 14 | So you 'd best win it now , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | We shall just introduce them now , but try to bear them in mind as you read on . |
| 16 | He 'll be up in , he 'll fucking win it now ! |
| 17 | but we 'll just leave it now |
| 18 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
| 19 | He could , he thought , safely do so : Anselm was not an active enemy , and even if he had been , he could scarcely harm him now . |
| 20 | They could not still want her now . |
| 21 | think back to a few years back when I was in training about a job and you might still think it now , but I could n't give , put ideas over to somebody on one-to-one training . |
| 22 | Hilary and Margaret helped with the exercises , although they can hardly recognise them now ! |
| 23 | it had sort of round shade with a bulb and the bu but it looked like an eye you know because the bulb came out and you moved these three things around , you can still buy them now , but er , then they were a bit way out . |
| 24 | " Look at you ! " he said , " I ca n't possibly present you now , Sara ! |
| 25 | Oh yeah that one , that 's not so bad , it 's the other stuff this er was is it , Saladene that that 's a wo a wood preservative it 's a got a s stainer now that 's not very strong I can still smell it now you know . |
| 26 | Well we ca n't hardly see them now . |
| 27 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 28 | I can still remember it now … |
| 29 | Does she ever see him now ? |
| 30 | The Germans could probably see us now and had the jeep as a target . |