Example sentences of "now it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money . |
| 2 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 3 | Now it becomes angry . |
| 4 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 5 | Now it happens all the time , and there is absolutely no way at all with the best will in the world , and I 'm sure that we all mean it , that we get on the phones at nine o'clock , and we get on the phones at eleven o'clock , you just do n't work like that . |
| 6 | Also , despite what had occurred in the past between them , SHe needed Cab so badly now it hurt more than the bruises in hir belly . |
| 7 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 8 | But now it seemed terrible that they should be able to talk so naturally while Dr. Lorrimer lay there dead upstairs . |
| 9 | Even now it seemed incredible that Mark — cynical , idle , sophisticated Mark , had actually joined that file of Catholic students who , during Holy Week , carried a heavy wooden Cross through the public streets and along the open road between London and Our Lady 's shrine at Walsingham . |
| 10 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 11 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 12 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 13 | No now it gets useful does n't it ? |
| 14 | Now it gets hairy . |
| 15 | Now , now it gets difficult when you come to a number like six . |
| 16 | Now it gets easier . |
| 17 | Until he reached five degrees he had found that it turned easily , through long use … but now it became stiff and awkward . |
| 18 | They still play honest hard rock , but now it sounds fresher and has thousands of hard edges . |
| 19 | Now it sounds weird now something about I 'm sure that 's but that 's what we used to call him you know . |
| 20 | Sir Nicholas Pelham lived in what is now the White Hart , the Gorings of Danny built ‘ Pelham ’ House in 1579 ; even now it hides one of the finest Elizabethan panelled rooms in the county . |
| 21 | Now it looked grubby , collapsed and marked like a very old deck of cards . |
| 22 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 23 | It had n't looked an easy distance before , but now it looked impossible . |
| 24 | Now it looked different . |
| 25 | Now it looked foolish and out of place . |
| 26 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 27 | Now it feels cold again |
| 28 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 29 | Not in this airless back yard with its cat-fouled alley , yet now it bore shining green leaves and four fat flower buds — and Gerry would never see them . |
| 30 | Funny , it had n't seemed very far before ; now it loomed large and unexpectedly out of reach . |