Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pisante brothers who own it are now helping with inquiries , as the phrase goes . |
| 2 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 3 | It is also an angry repudiation of sexual repressiveness as enforced by the ideology of authentic , normal sexuality , now ratified by state law and the medical professions . |
| 4 | As the public sector debt repayment is now contracting in size ( to only £0.4 billion in 1990/91 compared with £14.7 billion in 1988/89 and £7.9 billion in 1989/90 ) and as a public sector borrowing requirement is expected for the 1991/92 and 1992/93 financial years , it seems likely that regular issuance of Treasury bills will be maintained . |
| 5 | His green crest , she saw , was now tinged with brown at the roots . |
| 6 | Dolphin history is revealed by fossils from ancient marine sediments now exposed on land . |
| 7 | They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg . |
| 8 | Over the summer , word of mouth made Quadrant Park one of the most queued-for nights in the north ; now coachloads from Glasgow , Newcastle and even Manchester begin lining up amid the warehouses and oil tanks at 8pm . |
| 9 | The swing from suspicion to welcome which he met at Durham he now met at Cambridge . |
| 10 | The club scene is now inundated with New Zealand and Australian coaches , due in no small part to the success of Garryowen , current AIL champions under their New Zealand coach , my husband , Murray Kidd. the IRFU is also getting in on the act with the appointment of former All Black captain and current Wellington coach Andy Leslie to its coaching panel . |
| 11 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 12 | Older bridges are at great risk ; they could be made safer by fitting elastic isolators where thermal expansion bearings now sit between girders and columns . |
| 13 | Franca , now gathered into Marcus 's attempt , was saying in her mind , Oh let it be all right , let it be all right , not sure what she meant by this , whether that Marcus should revive Patrick , or whether simply that Marcus should ‘ get away ’ without some positive disgrace , some catastrophe or shameful happening . |
| 14 | The other actors , who were now gathered around Terry 's table with jars of yellow beer in front of them , had turned their chairs around to watch me , as if I were a football match . |
| 15 | A senior Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry official , identifying a hitherto only peripheral actor in the drama , characterized the role of the USSR in finding a solution as ‘ essential ; the important cards of the Iran-Iraq war are now gathered in Moscow ’ . |
| 16 | The Samaritans wanted to be treated as Sidonians , just as the inhabitants of Jerusalem were now treated as Antiochenes . |
| 17 | The sides must battle again for a quarter-final place on December 16 , but the odds are now stacked against Howard Kendall 's men after the way they lost their grip on this fiercely-contested fourth-round tie . |
| 18 | It is estimated with some reliability that one in five of those aged 85 and over now suffer from dementia ( Norman 1987a : 2 ) . |
| 19 | Two generations of canal-building brought about great alterations in the landscape of England , now matured by centuries of slow growth , but these changes were highly localised . |
| 20 | Aquidens curviceps ( above ) and dorsiger are now prefixed as Laetacara . |
| 21 | ’ He slapped the bubble , the interior now spattered with droplets of blood . |
| 22 | We are now collaborating with Perkin-Elmer in marketing MatchFinder , a neural network that recognises patterns produced by spectrometers . ’ |
| 23 | But , given the meticulous planning now undertaken by terrorists on both sides , the potential for operations going disastrously wrong means siege situations are likely to remain the exception to the rule . |
| 24 | Pressure is now building in Whitehall to cut the payments to those who stay on the list . |
| 25 | Now painted in RAF SEAC camouflage and markings , a first flight is planned for the end of 1991 . |
| 26 | Now painted in North Staffordshire Indiana livery it was rescued from the scrap merchants torch on the closure of Sierra Leone Railway and returned back to England together with four of the West African coaches in 1975 . |
| 27 | I 'm now a-going to Mr Gooding 's , straight to his farm , Redhouse , Witnesham . |
| 28 | She had heard that my father was preparing now to go to Somerset to be with the other Hastings folk . |
| 29 | It is now to go before Hambleton District Council . |
| 30 | Ageing by sutures has now fallen into disfavour . |