Example sentences of "about now " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no time to run out of knives and forks , so cutlery sales should be buoyant about now . |
| 2 | ‘ What about now ? |
| 3 | There 's a few people about now . |
| 4 | In the New Testament , fire is a principal symbol of the Holy Spirit , and that is what I want to talk about now . |
| 5 | He did n't bother to say who he was talking about now , Jinny noticed . |
| 6 | There were a few people about now : walking their dogs , jogging in tracksuits along the firm sand out by the water 's edge . |
| 7 | And due about now ( July ) the 2-litre from £18,135 followed by two diesels and an estate . |
| 8 | We might see Fergie , although I do n't know about now ! |
| 9 | Expect Mark and Jason Lee to adorn your screens right about now . |
| 10 | New Life skates — VCR cassette soon , should be in the stores right about now . |
| 11 | No , it 's too easy to forget that something which I hardly ever think about now was then a very great concern . |
| 12 | They usually started out about now , and after catching me up went forward an agreed distance to make camp . |
| 13 | What about now ? |
| 14 | About now , the first Hooray of spring can be seen stepping gingerly out of The Admiral Codrington and standing with his G 'n' T in the middle of the road . |
| 15 | There were not so many men about now . |
| 16 | ‘ The only thing I can think about now is being hard up . |
| 17 | He pulled on his respirator , his mind made up to get back to her as soon as he could , for Nell Anderson was all he cared about now . |
| 18 | ‘ How about now ? |
| 19 | But what we 're talking about now is Neil Pascoe and PANUP . |
| 20 | The Scott Walker-written ‘ Long About Now ’ , delivered during a keyboard-accompanied interlude mid-set , is a haunted and expressive croon , while the version of Ministry 's ‘ Stigmata ’ clatters relentlessly . |
| 21 | Simon 's due for release about now , maybe already . |
| 22 | If you believe in cycle theories , you could be forgiven for thinking a big one is due about now : the last big quakes have occurred in 1633 , 1703 , 1782 , 1853 and 1923 . |
| 23 | So far as we are concerned , this barely matters : although it is likely that ‘ mini black holes ’ , about the size of a subatomic particle , were created by the enormous forces involved in the Big Bang , it is only about now , perhaps 15 billion years later , that these should be beginning to disintegrate . |
| 24 | What you need to know about now is how to bring your practice and your registration status up to date , and the different routes of re-entry available to you . |
| 25 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 26 | At least 'e 's gettin' out an' about now . ’ |
| 27 | An article about ‘ now ’ that 's always due about now . |
| 28 | About now the small , tannic apples from which cider is made — ancient varieties like Brownsnouts , Kingston Blacks and Sweet Coppins — are coming up by the lorry load , shaken off the trees in the orchards by the men with long hooked poles . |
| 29 | Now that is all behind me and all I can think about now is winning the 1991 world championship . ’ |
| 30 | What it is about now is ‘ the need to involve employees to a greater extent in company decision making ’ . |