Example sentences of "[prep] now [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three two lurchers and a Staffordshire bull terrier are being cared for now by the RSPCA workers who believe they had n't eaten for at least a month . |
| 2 | From now to the end of the year we can expect governments to make a big effort to secure a settlement . |
| 3 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 4 | Who would even remember my name twelve months from now in the midst of another winter , unless in the context of some old dirty joke or dated ribaldry ? |
| 5 | From now until the year 2000 , the arts calendar is silting up with festivals , memorials and monumental events . |
| 6 | I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent . |
| 7 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 8 | The venture has been conspicuously successful in giving a platform to Scottish musicians , and in building audience momentum around the country , although the break from now until the autumn could threaten the latter achievement . |
| 9 | From now until the end of July there was an endless stream of invitations to balls , picnics , garden parties , receptions . |
| 10 | From now until the end of November , you can take advantage of two unique offers . |
| 11 | Although the very long-term future plays a part in present thinking ( for example , concern about the burden which present promises of pension levels may impose on future generations of working age ) , it is the shorter-term prospects — from now until the end of the century — which mainly concern policy-makers , the caring professions , informal carers of infirm elderly people , and older people themselves . |
| 12 | From now until the time of Magnus the Pious there are no Emperors and the lands becomes increasingly divided . |
| 13 | " " You can try , El-ahrairah , and if you succeed I will multiply your people everywhere and no one will be able to keep them out of a vegetable garden from now till the end of the world . |
| 14 | The letter I am referring to now at the moment is a particular token instance of letter as a lexical item , a general conceptual type , a codified abstraction . |
| 15 | Till now on the stroke of midnight , cold on the stroke of midnight , the tip of one finger touched it , the trigger at last was hers . |
| 16 | She put her mouth over it , licking , sucking , dribbling , both of us unaware by now of the child sleeping three or four paces across the half-dark room . |
| 17 | All of us should know by now of the decision taken at the special church meeting on 13th May to go ahead with the purchase of the Camphill building . |
| 18 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 19 | You will have heard by now about the Government 's proposals for the reorganisation of local government boundaries . |
| 20 | JE : And Peter was by now in the company ? |
| 21 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |