Example sentences of "they now [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now seemed enormous , with the swell surging up their black , shining sides . |
| 2 | These children felt let down by their parents , there was no emotional link and they now felt free of them . |
| 3 | They now put this figure at around 400 people . ’ |
| 4 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 5 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They now looked animated and alert . |
| 9 | They now become responsible for your anger . |
| 10 | Although Beckenham U.D.C. had powers to construct a tramway system , which they might have leased to the B.E.T. , and had built a power station in Churchfields Road , they now had second thoughts about tramways and were thinking in terms of permitting the B.E.T . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They now cover 35 per cent . |
| 13 | No matter what the Pistols sounded like , he reasoned , they now made perfect commercial sense — a feeling emphatically confirmed by their confrontation with Bill Grundy . |
| 14 | They now need 327 runs to win on a dry wicket which is cracking and causing the occasional erratic bounce . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And they now look set to promote more harmonious race relations in the community after passing with flying colours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For some architects , the removal of regulations which both provided guidelines for behaviour and also limited the areas in which competition existed has provided a stimulus since they now feel able to compete more efficiently in a less restricted arena . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Typically they now run multinational operations , or parts of them , and spend a great deal more time in the air or in foreign hotels than their predecessors would ever have thought a necessary part of the publishing process . |
| 22 | They now held diluted fruit juice donated in its doubly concentrated form by British Airways Catering Department . |
| 23 | Though they have done well in Germany and Belgium ( they now own one-tenth of all the office space in Brussels ) , Swedish investors have come a cropper in London . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | The caves gave shelter to a new generation of troglodytes — European nomads , Australian girls ending their ‘ Grand Tours ’ by going native , those few English women who had felt the lure of the desert so intently that they now nursed fair-haired , olive-skinned babies and hung their washing-lines from one eroded pinnacle to another . |
| 27 | David and Barbara Owen say they now face financial ruin . |
| 28 | David and Barbara Owen say they now face financial ruin . |
| 29 | Many fishermen have done well in recent years but they now face great pressure on the fish stocks . |
| 30 | If convicted they now face heavy fines , confiscation of goods , and even imprisonment . |