Example sentences of "[verb] now [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were concerned that er what 's happening now in the Gulf is n't a simple issue , and it needs to be dealt with very carefully . |
| 2 | Send now for a Tile Information Pack . |
| 3 | Where the Tories have lost recent by-elections , the second placed party has won , and Mike Potter holds that place now in the Richmond constituency . |
| 4 | She had completely forgotten now about the rest of the class . |
| 5 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 6 | Only two slogans appear now on the billboards . |
| 7 | Their progress over the next two weeks will solve the Guineas mystery , but that is of little concern to connections of Dr Devious , who heads now for the Kentucky Derby ( for which he is 10–1 from 12–1 ) in Louisville on May 2 and returns to Epsom for the Ever Ready Derby in June . |
| 8 | I want you — take me , ’ she whispered , twisting now in a way not designed to keep him away . |
| 9 | She was wailing now like a baby herself ; marriage with him would mean more of them , her body used every night , and no theatre again , ever . |
| 10 | He did n't move from the middle of the hall , but watched Maggie standing in a doorway to the right , and she turned her face to him , laughing now as the voice from the other room came to him , saying , ‘ Male or female ? ’ |
| 11 | The paper will focus now on the use of electronic communication in the scientific community — an academic environment where e-mail could well constitute an important source of scholarly correspondence . |
| 12 | I concentrated now on the driver . |
| 13 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
| 14 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 15 | Davide was walking now down the street which intersected with the woman 's shop ; she still gave sheets of pink blotting paper for change , and a photograph of her son was pinned up on the shelf behind her till ; the news was that he was in the army , but Davide was ashamed to inquire what that report concealed . |
| 16 | It lies now beneath the waters of the lake , about ten miles out from the shore . |
| 17 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 18 | Returning now with the lemonade , she gave Aubrey a quick glance of appraisal . |
| 19 | Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation . |
| 20 | Returning now to the referral and investigation work undertaken by the team between October 1987 and March 1988 , Table 3 provides some detail about the range of activities on which the total time of 253 hours was spent and shows that the bulk of the activity time was spent in direct contact with children and/or their caregivers . |
| 21 | Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening . |
| 22 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 23 | His father told him to listen now to the way he himself was going to sing them . |
| 24 | He was trembling now with the intensity of his detestation , his voice precarious with passion . |
| 25 | difficulty in working out whether she 's understanding what we 've said now in the way of instructions until it comes back . |
| 26 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 27 | It will do now in a couple of years time . |
| 28 | What I mean is , you can choose now in the mornings whether you 're going to be Marie Antoinette or a plumber 's mate . |
| 29 | Patrick subsided into his seat , thoroughly alarmed now at the expression on his mother 's face . |
| 30 | Threatened now by a diminution of his semi-regal status , Ras Hailu decided to rebel and reinstate his son-in-law , Lij Yasu , as Emperor . |