Example sentences of "[prep] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er otherwise I 'll , I 'll would n't , I never want to go back to Nazeing not after now and , and now the , this new town we were taken shopping the other Tuesday , it was really lovely and we see all the shops , first time I 've really seen them properly and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and we were all given erm in a , is it Blockers one of the shops ? |
| 2 | I be lucky I get any bloke fer more'n two monfs togewer like my ol' lady I suppose an' if I get a bloke 'e 'll be aht a' work or 'e 'll set me ter the bleed'n game like 'er I would n't be surprised but if you reely want ter now jus ' fer now for this minute I wanner enjoy it . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , th'champagne an ’ caviar kin wait fer now . |
| 4 | He do n't know where either you or Brett is fer now . |
| 5 | We have , erm , one more paragraph and a few questions to discuss and time , what is it , it 's about ten past now , is it , according to your |
| 6 | it 's ten past now , ten past twelve |
| 7 | The Peking Daily accused the West of trying to subjugate China for 40 years and of now waging ‘ psychological warfare and dreaming of victory without war ’ . |
| 8 | Of this last film the Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges laconically wrote : ‘ The vigorous message of Now , Voyager is : When Bette Davis is disfigured , she is less beautiful . ’ |
| 9 | ( Readers might be reminded of Now Try This — 2 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 10 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
| 11 | The doctrine of now universal liberation received its most dramatic affirmation in the French revolution of 1789 . |
| 12 | Apart from Nicholson , Peter Fonda , Peter Bogdanovich , Francis Ford Coppola , Stephen Spielberg , Bob Rafelson , Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were among a long cast list of now famous names who found a toe-hold in Hollywood by working with him . |
| 13 | I do n't want pictures to be used that I 'd be ashamed of now . |
| 14 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 15 | She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door . |
| 16 | of now I need ; the |
| 17 | From a committed team of nine couples , less than a year later they have the encouragement of now seeing a hundred regularly worshipping together each week . |
| 18 | And the bands we think of now as being the most original have always , always based their music on someone else 's . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's official … as of now . |
| 20 | As of now , this operation is phase two status , active . |
| 21 | As of now , cigarettes are banned in this house . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've done everything I can possibly think of now , so going on the run is my protest . |
| 23 | Among the prizes are 100 copies of Now 22 , a double LP compilation packed with this year 's biggest hits — including Erasure 's Take A Chance On Me , Jimmy Nail 's Ai n't No Doubt , the Utah Saints ' Something Good , the Orb 's Blue Room and the Cure 's Friday I 'm In Love . |
| 24 | Channel 4 's TV Heaven is the equivalent of Now That 's What I Call Music — shameless retro zeitgeist wank split into individual years and presented with just the right tone of sobriety and knowingness by Frank Muir . |
| 25 | South African rugby has really come to this : a game for 90 players from the Transvaal , Northern Transvaal , Western Province , Eastern Province , Orange Free State and Natal who get wonderfully reimbursed for the expense of now playing 23 or more first-class fixtures in a season against one another while the rest hardly get a look in . |
| 26 | What does it consist of now ? |
| 27 | As of now , IBM Corp is offering an anti-virus service to its UK customers : this comprises updates to anti-virus programs four times a year — these provide users with ‘ install-and-forget ’ automatic protection on MS-DOS , OS/2 and Microsoft Corp 's Windows operating systems , and can detect viruses in the memory , on floppy and hard disks ; if viruses are found in the memory , they are disabled , but if found on disks the user is given a recommended course of action on-line ; other services consist of detection tools for any new viruses ; access to an anti-virus bulletin board , from which the latest products and documentation can be downloaded ; phone support desk ; and customer alert service to forewarn of known or threatened virus outbreaks ; prices will be amended on an annual basis , but for one to 250 machines , the service is £1,000 , on 3,001 to 5,000 workstations it is £12,000 . |
| 28 | The large percentage of now elderly women who never married reflects an important cohort effect which was introduced earlier ; the impact of the First World War . |
| 29 | Thus the high percentage of now elderly women who never married is not related to ageing ; it is not an age effect . |
| 30 | The largest of these is the International ‘ Rock Summer ’ in Tallinn , the capital of now independent Estonia ( max audience 150,000 ) . |