Example sentences of "[conj] now [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 2 | Nor did I desist until the patients were worn out , and said that now the devil had fled . |
| 3 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 4 | So that now the GCSE comes along , and lo ! what do we have but composition , performance and listening over four terms , and continuous assessment , etc . |
| 5 | A foot has been put through the loft floor and now a hole needs to be repaired in a lath and plaster bedroom ceiling . |
| 6 | ‘ And now a bite to eat , ’ said Balor , grinning the wide , flat grin of all the Gruagach . |
| 7 | There has been quite a staggering traffic of internationals into and out of New Zealand and provincial teams in recent years — and now a highway has been invitingly posted . |
| 8 | Faye had had two miscarriages and now a threat hung over this pregnancy as well . |
| 9 | — and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane . |
| 10 | A newspaper and now a bank have since taken over . |
| 11 | We 've had a fucking chase through Soho and now a woman 's been murdered . |
| 12 | But foxes in chicken runs get shot , and now the Israelites get the plague . |
| 13 | It was too late to be worrying over any implications inherent in spending Christmas with the Danbys and now the day had dawned Meredith was rather pleased she was going to be with company , especially after her sighting of the whatever-it-was during the night . |
| 14 | For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived . |
| 15 | The work was completed , the Tyndalls eventually passed away and now the University has a music Department housed in pure poetry . |
| 16 | And now the footsteps had stopped . |
| 17 | And now the Russians have realised they can make money out of this country . ’ |
| 18 | Bemac 's workforce has fallen from 215 to 140 in the past year and now the firm has appointed a consultant to advise on the restructuring of the company . |
| 19 | I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ ! |
| 20 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 21 | Marry they of course did , and now the honours came fast . |
| 22 | Dowman insists the club spirit is still there , the probables just shading the possibles in a fierce midweek practice match , and now the fireworks have to be used against the opposition . |
| 23 | But a year ago the roof was declared unsafe and now the Church has been closed while repairs are carried out . |
| 24 | And now the pace slowed , leaf by leaf rose , quivered erect , and slowly descended . |
| 25 | ‘ I have put my Spirit upon him ; he will bring forth justice to the nations ’ says God through the prophet And now the Spirit had come , and Mark 's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant , equipped or his … stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time . |
| 26 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 27 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 28 | Harry Williams ' home-bred flyer has attracted tremendous ante-post support at odds of 100–1 and now the bookmakers have dramatically cut the price to 50–1 , with a few layers offering a more generous 66–1 . |
| 29 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 30 | There were a lot of very poor men also in a number of these trades who were not originally covered by the legislation , and that 's where the erm the developments have , have come from since then , the dynamic of the policy , because the argument over whether it should be only for women rebounded on them , and people said , ‘ No , it should n't ’ , so for a while the legislation was all scrapped and then they started again , and now the Americans have much more comprehensive laws than we do . |