Example sentences of "now [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hold your breath , now sit forward a couple of inches and now tense up all over the body , tighter , tighter . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , therefore , whereas in 1949–50 means-tested benefits accounted for only 12.7 per cent of the social security budget , they now command over a quarter of all social security expenditure ( Reform of Social Security : Background Papers , Cmnd. 9519 , pp. 28–9 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Now wait just a minute , ’ put in Uncle Alfred . |
| 4 | you said you now update once a year , is that right , every September ? |
| 5 | The Government Health Warning beneath the images has now become merely a product identification sign — without the " warning " we should not even begin to recognize what product was offered in the remarkable pictorial rebus above . |
| 6 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |