Example sentences of "but [pers pn] now [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I now saw other opportunities . |
| 2 | It is very difficult to cover all the possible eventualities in the forty-odd hours of the PPL course , but I now spend more time teaching emergencies connected with power reductions . |
| 3 | That 's fine , but you now know this will happen , and you know how to do it — just by carrying on with this Inch Loss Plan diet and the Maintenance Exercise Programme which will have the effect of continually improving your shape . |
| 4 | There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication . |
| 5 | She still likes pop music , especially the singers and groups she grew up with , like Neil Diamond , Dire Straits and Duran Duran , and thoroughly enjoys the rock concerts she attends , but she now finds classical music more soothing to read and work to . |
| 6 | no , but we now know that , if it , if I 've got the right time , half past twelve 's fine |
| 7 | That could well be , but we now have this tremendous er cooperation of so many countries together , we have a very strong team of naval forces in the Gulf now , er I think it 's significant that both these occasions involved three countries working together , er share , without er any violence at any , er injury as far as I 'm aware , er have stopped er these two ships that sought to continue to proceed . |
| 8 | But we now have some understanding of the universality , or otherwise , of symbolic archetypes . |
| 9 | Many fishermen have done well in recent years but they now face great pressure on the fish stocks . |
| 10 | But they now have little chance of making the Anglo-Italian semi-finals . |
| 11 | The North have never been whitewashed in the Championship , but they now look vulnerable as injuries , defections and selection switches have deprived them of a consistent team . |
| 12 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 13 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 14 | The Tories ' share of the vote is not as high as in the 1950s under Winston Churchill , Sir Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan , but it now appears impregnable to attacks by the other parties . |
| 15 | They had hoped to be back at the beginning of next season but it now looks unlikely to be until half-way through it . |
| 16 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 17 | But it now seems possible that Pask will never come back to court . |
| 18 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 19 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 20 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |