Example sentences of "the [noun] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 2 | I 've I 've just look I 've just got the neck now to do . |
| 3 | The words drawled out sleepily but there was enough light from the window now to see that his eyes were open , watching me . |
| 4 | We are also forcing the white people in the communities now to take a stand on the whole thing ; they 've always ignored us . |
| 5 | We 'll have to cross to the other side of the plain now to find anything . " |
| 6 | There is no one living in the Glen now to glean information from , save the National Trust Rangers and a tenant farmer . |
| 7 | There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't worry , I 'm going straight to the chemist now to buy some sun-screen lotion . ’ |
| 9 | Some members want the IEE now to use more muscle , with threats of expulsion from the Institution , if Thomson does not at least provide a catalogue of the material he has collected and give rock solid guarantees on its long term security , after his death . |
| 10 | Therefore I ask the assembly now to vote o sorry , yes Dr you have the right to reply , of course you have . |
| 11 | Lloyd 's brothers Graham and Adrian have also played and scored for us in recent years , so I guess we will have to start scouring the valleys now to find another of his relatives . ’ |
| 12 | Is the policy now to stick to what you know ? |
| 13 | Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll call the factory now to check . ’ |
| 15 | Some said there would be no more than a brief lull to refurbish and reprovision , and then another attempt ; others maintained that the troops would be paid off — if they were so lucky as to be paid ! — and disbanded from Shrewsbury , for it was too late in the year now to favour an invasion . |
| 16 | I 'm one of the people who 've actually got the guts now to stand up and say that I . . |
| 17 | I am pleased at the progress on that issue , but may I ask the Minister now to look urgently at the decision to allow a Scottish ferry company to run the ferry between Rathlin and Ballycastle ? |
| 18 | It is again common ground that the appropriate course for the House now to take in accordance with regulation 143 of the Regulations of 1989 is to adjourn the hearing of the defendant 's application for an order under section 18 , which will automatically activate the procedure under regulation 147 requiring the defendant , if he is minded to pursue the matter , to file evidence in support of his claim . |