Example sentences of "till now " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 2 | Judging by the mood prevalent up till now in the DDR the planned freedom of travel will scarcely influence those who want to leave because their patience is at an end and their trust in the government has been destroyed . |
| 3 | The banks have been holding off up till now , because they did not want loan losses further to dent their earnings , already hit by the stockmarket fall , in the current financial year . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the great moments of my life till now , ’ was how Charles described it to Clarissa on the telephone later . |
| 5 | ‘ Till now I always thought 'em black |
| 6 | ‘ Neither did I till now . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 8 | To reject the ways of Christianity up till now because we think we are more enlightened , is to begin to throw doubt on our belief that God does speak through the Bible and the teaching of the Church . |
| 9 | Oh she 's always been a good daughter up till now , I 'll grant her that , I 've never been one to just blame the girl , Douglas , I blame the boy too . |
| 10 | This then is a ragbag of pieces , some still to be performed out loud , which I have n't collected together till now . |
| 11 | It is not possible to assess his total output as no serious work has been undertaken on him till now . |
| 12 | Till now though such research has been fraught with failure and misinterpretation . |
| 13 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 14 | I 'd quite forgotten till now . |
| 15 | The boy had survived up till now mostly because he was of no particular interest to anyone — at least , not sufficient to surmount the barrier of that protective shadow with those fearsome teeth . |
| 16 | ‘ I own , ’ he admitted unnecessarily to his colleagues , ‘ I was afraid of invasion till now . ’ |
| 17 | Violet , cocky till now , she had held her own with the man — where was he ? — backed hard against the wall . |
| 18 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 19 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 20 | I 'm just amazed that no one 's said it till now . |
| 21 | ‘ I had not till now received word from the queen my mother . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , there has n't been any question of it up till now . |
| 23 | However the children were less bullied , although Olivia , who till now had run about under her mother 's feet , received her first caning the day after her sixth birthday , having grown pert in the meantime , living away from the rest . |
| 24 | ‘ An' where do yer think yow 've bin till now ? ’ |
| 25 | We 've created so much space for heterosexual women workers to carry out projects , and yet up till now they have not returned the compliment . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , there 's one thing that seems sure to me : she 's not goin' to have it as easy as she 's had it up till now , by the sound of her . ’ |
| 27 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 28 | Up till now , the best candidate to be the original of Caravaggio 's ‘ Christ taken into captivity ’ of 1602 , in Odessa Museum |
| 29 | ‘ Because the last time kept you going till now . ’ |
| 30 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |