Example sentences of "[subord] now [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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1 | But he still surrounds himself with women and he still takes his camera everywhere , although now he prefers making commercials for Reebok and Virgin Airlines to taking pictures . |
2 | The sexy Batman Returns star says that up until now she has been too busy chasing her career to take any time off . |
3 | EDS has stayed out of the public administration market in Italy because , ‘ up until now it 's been risky , ’ Ribas says , adding that ‘ until the system of favours [ bribes and kickbacks ] is brought under control , we 're more comfortable in the private sector . ’ |
4 | Up until now it 's been a duet between Anthony d'Offay and Lisson galleries to win the prize . |
5 | This particular event only happens once every 400 years , and up until now it 's always been someone else 's turn . |
6 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
7 | Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk . |
8 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
9 | Up until now it has been difficult to have the best of both worlds when it comes to running one of the more expensive 4x4 off-road vehicles . |
10 | In the first place , says Freud , the child wo n't obey any longer , necessarily , because now he 's got nothing to fear , and secondly , a child might resent the lie that has been told to him . |
11 | Whereas now it 's locked in . |
12 | It was what the Press admired as my dedication , though now it seems more like a selfishness allied to ruthlessness , ’ he said , frowning . |
13 | There is still real concern about the nature of the assessment process , though now it has to do more with its extreme complexity than with the simplistic naïveté of the earlier proposals , and with the fundamental differences of approach that are emerging between the examiners and the curriculum planners . |
14 | City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ . |
15 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
16 | For now she feels that her life is over . |
17 | For now it seems that even the eels from America spawn , and then die , in the Sargasso Sea . |
18 | For now he seems to be biding his time on the sidelines , ready to step in , should the UN 's effort start to crumble . |