Example sentences of "[verb] now but " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are similarities between the Thirties and what is happening now but they are still relatively thin . |
| 2 | That is what 's happening now but what I 'm saying is put a new chiller in |
| 3 | I am told that there has been an agreement that some of the contact orders should be varied now but that does not form part of the appeal . |
| 4 | Well he was erm , oh I ca n't think of the word I want now but er he , he was glued to his notes |
| 5 | Which are storing information which we do n't need now but it |
| 6 | I mean I know the deal I 'd do now but er only being their consultant I ca n't really clinch it . |
| 7 | She would cut up yesterday 's leftover bread , staling now but to the taste of Madeleine , and carry that and the new baguette along the corridor to the dining-room . |
| 8 | Whilst understanding the reasons for change as part of AEAs evolution , he was unclear as to why the announcement had been made now but appreciated being given the information so explicitly and comprehensively . |
| 9 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 10 | You know er I ca n't think of a work we 've done now but er |
| 11 | It was closed now but a dry leaf marked a place . |
| 12 | He thought they 'd be going now but he was wrong . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember now but they 're at least five . |
| 14 | What can follow now but renewed war , and hotter than before ? |
| 15 | H how would you go to somebody like that and say well yeah we , we 'll be able to negotiate for you better in the future and we might be able to get more er be better conditions of service than you 've got now but as of now you 're gon na be paying this much more in contributions . |
| 16 | He just wants a better one than they 've got now but a very basic |
| 17 | This is all being taped now but it |
| 18 | ‘ The front door is locked now but the caretaker will let you out at the back , so you 'll be welcome to stay for a wee while longer . |
| 19 | Nothing was left in it except Patrick himself and he had nothing to do now but to depart . |
| 20 | There is nothing to do now but wait , and believe me , midnight seems like a week away . |
| 21 | There was nothing for Branson to do now but cut his losses , and trust to a return of the Branson luck . |
| 22 | Nothing else to do now but watch in the security-scanner , make sure it did n't record anything it should n't . |
| 23 | The problem was that the whole thing had become so complex — it was n't only what he was going to do now but there was the stuff back at the club , there was Ashdown and what he knew , there was the whole sorry business of his suspension and the charges against him … taken one piece at a time it seemed bad enough , but taken all together it was far too much for his mind to handle . |
| 24 | They 're not speaking now but he 's very good to her , she has her favourite mushroom omelettes at every meal . |
| 25 | The voices had stopped now but an illuminating mist seemed.to fill the room with a white incandescent glow . |
| 26 | Wo n't particularly matter with what we 're doing now but it will do when we go on to seasons . |
| 27 | Mine are the only actually they 're not as bad as they used to be they need doing now but Daddy 's so they 're not too bad . |
| 28 | I mean I 've had Fife College on the phone as well saying you know why ca n't we do it and Alec we 're really now we can do no more until Napier come up if for some reason Napier fell down on the job then I think I 've got enough knowledge about what we 're doing now but I would start running it round the other colleges including Telford who are doing a distance learning course |
| 29 | I know the Chinese accent has disappeared now but he goes now ! |
| 30 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |