Example sentences of "[adv] now [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He and Helen were blissfully happy , alone now in the house where they had lived with Helen 's mother for the first few weeks of their marriage .
2 we 're obviously now in a position where we can do a great deal more in terms of analysis .
3 The lobby led on the left to the kitchen and on the right to the corridor to the rest of the train , along which desultory passengers were appearing , swaying gently now to the movement of gathering speed .
4 Ready now for the rescue .
5 Ready now for the rescue .
6 Huy saw that to play along was the only way to get more information , and Surere had mentioned the protection of innocence as the mainstay of his creed often enough now for the scribe to make connections , though they were as yet half-formed , and his heart was inclined , at their birth , to reject them as falling too pat .
7 With money being transferred from the Universities Funding Council to the research councils , Knill felt that ‘ there is enough now in the research council system to fully support research grants ’ .
8 He refused to look to either side ; crossing the bridge on the pleasantest of days could be a frightening experience and more so now as the ice below split and cracked .
9 So now to the problem of obesity .
10 His shoes , his books , his leather trunks and saddlery would similarly be covered in green mould and would remain so now until the end of the rainy season .
11 ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back .
12 Pan Am and T W A are doing internal flights only now in the States are n't they ?
13 London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions .
14 Traffic seems to be running fairly , better now on the M twenty five , that 's clockwise round junction sixteen where there was some earlier slow moving traffic .
15 you better now by the way ?
16 On and upward , slow now with the altitude telling on legs and lungs alike , the route was measured in numbers of steps before a rest was needed .
17 That most attractive bird , the heron can be observed more easily now in the reed beds and overhead some geese search for new feeding grounds .
18 She thought of the way Guy had left her just now without a word of reassurance or explanation .
19 Where we were just now with the research then talk about questionnaires .
20 Just now with the flowers it is a profusion of colour and our cemetery leaves nothing to be desired .
21 ‘ Can we go right away now for the ring ? ’ he said , but there was a sound upstairs and Anne lifted her head .
22 Grandmother 's portrait had been there before but was tucked away now in an alcove in the dining-room .
23 She who 'd never been one to chatter , prattling away now like a child :
24 Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages .
25 Although Daisy 's name could not be mentioned , Dad was ruder than ever now about the immigrants .
26 He knew more now about the family , and how they had lost their parents .
27 His books are still read , though more now for the nostalgia they generate than for their real-world relevance .
28 This is The Wave , 1961 , a large oil painting of great expressionist vigour , one of the late masterpieces of the Scottish painter Joan Eardley ( 1921–63 ) , whose reputation is deservedly now in the ascendant as a major British Modern .
29 No doubt the phrases would be interpreted very differently now from an interpretation put upon them even 40 years ago .
30 Cullam stood by the window , staring fixedly now at the road he had trodden with Hatton and Pertwee .
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