Example sentences of "[adv prt] now and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come along now and get some dinner inside you , if that hair 's dry . |
| 2 | Run along now and do n't ask questions — and do n't worry your father with silly questions either . " |
| 3 | I think we should go back down now and show these to Joan . |
| 4 | Come down now and help us with the boat . ’ |
| 5 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 6 | Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper . |
| 7 | If we sat down now and tried to write something fashionable , we could n't do it — our hearts would n't be in it , and it would sound bollocks . |
| 8 | yeah just come down now and have a look |
| 9 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 10 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 11 | Right my two get in you have n't got coats on Charlotte in now and shut the door |
| 12 | ‘ You could come in now and have some coffee . ’ |
| 13 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 14 | Violent abuse , death threats , bomb warnings and evangelical types were also far more common on the phones then , though received Switchboard wisdom says that 's because they have more trouble getting through now and tend to get discouraged and give up quicker than genuine callers . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't you come over now and have coffee ? |
| 16 | I 'll turn this off now and get on with the dinner . |
| 17 | He could — should ! — get off now and go to bed . |
| 18 | ‘ You go off now and forget all about it . |
| 19 | He had taken his glasses off now and pulled his T-shirt up over his head , revealing that manly torso of perfect proportions , over which he deftly fastened the frilled silk shirt , and tucked it into his jeans . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd take your clothes off now and prove it to you , ’ he said thickly , and his hands were shaking as they held her by the hips . |
| 21 | Well he 's taken his wings off now and joined Clerical Medical . |
| 22 | The men tell us we 'd better get off now and spend the night somewhere . |
| 23 | Join up now and claim your free adidas accessory . |
| 24 | ‘ Belt up now and listen for your names . ’ |
| 25 | Sit up now and eat it . |
| 26 | I know and I 'm trying to pile them up now and let you see the patterns so these |
| 27 | I think perhaps we ought to go up now and hope the weather 's better in the morning . ’ |
| 28 | She , in whom a natural clear spring of charm flowed vigorously , who expostulated , articulated and knew her own mind with commanding grace — in private , not in public of course ( before others who were not family , such confidence in a girl would seem an outrage ) — could not speak up now and tell Rosa what she felt . |
| 29 | Despite the protests she sat up now and swung her feet from the settee . |
| 30 | ‘ We should pack up now and go . ’ |