Example sentences of "and [pron] now [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have presented me with the key , and I now perceive all of its hitherto latent beauties . ’ |
| 2 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 3 | Behind him , behind the last of the houses , the ancient terraces , which his forebears have shaped and which now shape this community , rise up steeply to the rock escarpment dominating this side of the island . |
| 4 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 5 | Bett and I also like to ‘ dine ’ out as often as possible and we now know some very good and cheap pub lunches around South Lancs and North Cheshire ( not to mention Greater Manchester and Merseyside ) . |
| 6 | Our social orders have changed and we now dislike such vivid evidence of hierarchy . |
| 7 | ‘ Advertising revenue has held well over the last year and we now see some small signs of an upturn after three years of recession , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | All the optimism of the summer had evaporated , and we now faced another winter and Christmas without our families in this cold hole in the ground . |
| 9 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
| 10 | Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity . |
| 11 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 12 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |
| 13 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 14 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |