Example sentences of "now [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 2 | ‘ Then you do not now rule out the possibility of murder ? ’ she said . |
| 3 | Now pick up the symbol , and lovingly hold it against you — allowing it to dissolve into your heart . |
| 4 | Now pick up the important ones , sort out your priorities . |
| 5 | Now pick up the skateboard . |
| 6 | Three Englishmen ventured north , bought into , and are now building up the 200-year-old Scottish printer Pillans & Wilson . |
| 7 | But is GCHQ now sucking in the innocent ? |
| 8 | Quality Software Products Holdings Plc , Gateshead has now filled in the numbers hidden by the blobs in its pathfinder prospectus ( CI No 2,132 ) , pricing the 2.85m shares it is placing , 1.46m of them new , at 380 pence a share , valuing Quality , which did £1.2m net on £13.1m sales in 1992 , at £29.6m and raising about £5m of new money , net of expenses , for the company . |
| 9 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 10 | In a more romantic mode , it is as though a thousand lone voices have suddenly and unexpectedly found common cause in one majestic chorus , which is now drowning out the discordant notes heard from beyond the main stage . |
| 11 | Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list , Spurs look light in the key area . |
| 12 | I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend . |
| 13 | Those lips , which had so recently roved over Jaq 's body , now sucked in the slithery tough stuff of the hydra with the same seeming hunger . |
| 14 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 15 | But contractors for the Re-Roof Housing Association have now sorted out the problems . |
| 16 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 17 | Benjamin shouted at Santerre now walking down the nave towards us . |
| 18 | Now driving down the E 35 from Offenburg . |
| 19 | The Somerset landscape has been dissolved in darkness , and the mysterious forces of nature , normally sought by Coleridge high in the Quantocks , or in the dell at Alfoxden , now wash over the sleeping town and reach to the very door of his cottage . |
| 20 | Originally , rendering was on the inside , but this can flake off and block the drain , so rendering ( if used ) is now put on the outside . |
| 21 | I will have to do what I can now to pick up the threads of my life . |
| 22 | So , I 'll now lift up the the curtain and look out into the street and see if there is any sign of them . |
| 23 | Home advantage will be a big factor next week , and I hope we can now finish off the job . |
| 24 | The CIT thanks Transport Development Group for the fine portrait of Philip Henman which now hangs on the first floor landing at 80 Portland Place . |
| 25 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 26 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 27 | He may have told you we 've now handed over the Nissan Sunny to John and replaced it with a new bright-red Micra ( the one with the cuddly toy-car image ) . |
| 28 | Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies |
| 29 | Now clear off the pair of yer . ’ |
| 30 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |