Example sentences of "they now [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now put this figure at around 400 people . ’ |
| 2 | The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him . |
| 3 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 4 | On the other hand , more of the owner-managed businesses said they now had more confidence in the direction of Government policy than the top 1,000 representatives . |
| 5 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 6 | but when I spoke about safety and getting the money back from the safety training that they now want that they did n't want in the first place you said , no , we should do that |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 9 | To everyone 's surprise they now find this somewhat unusual repertoire much in demand , to such an extent indeed that it could be described as ‘ cult ’ . |
| 10 | Since then the demand for cotton has grown and after a trial range , they now produce more cotton than wool and have even added fancy cottons to their range . |
| 11 | why ca n't they now decrease that , and er start doing advertising ? |
| 12 | But they now have little chance of making the Anglo-Italian semi-finals . |
| 13 | The Tories misery in Oxfordshire was repeated in Wiltshire , where they now have less than half the seats they had yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ The only losers in this transaction are the larger regional banks , because they now have another competitor of significant size . |