Example sentences of "[adv] and now " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have eaten enough and now we wish to retire . ’ |
| 2 | It has since been cared for rather better and now appears much improved . |
| 3 | And then , with terror that was not his own , he was alive again , in the sweet blackness , and Mouse clung desperately , only to be wrenched back to the red deathly peace , hearing an endless scream as a woman he had never seen died , died endlessly and now . |
| 4 | The result is that the townscape of houses has been spreading further outwards and now , in places , the rurban fringe of one town meets that of another . |
| 5 | As a tourist spectacle it welcomed over 3.5 million visitors in 1988 alone and now ranks as the North West 's premier tourist attraction . |
| 6 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 7 | He had thought it might be so and now he had the Proof . |
| 8 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 9 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 10 | For example , there has been a good deal of solid research on the changing nature of the mining industries in the Third World , once entirely and now less entirely dominated by First World TNCs . |
| 11 | We went to school together and now both work at Templeton 's . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 've got no food and we ca n't stop the humans and we 're trapped in the quarry and I 've tried to keep everyone together and now it 's all gone wrong ! ’ |
| 13 | Well he was a computer programmer so he designed his programme to shorten the ac the system , like , you know and these have got together and now they 're in business . |
| 14 | and they do it electrically or you can do it manually and he 's turned them round manually and now the water 's coming out normal put them back to how they were |
| 15 | Pascale Fontaine and Henri Malosse have published a short A to Z survey called Les Institutions Européennes ( Retz ) , whilst François Visine has written Dictionnaire de l'Européen ( Visine ) , a much longer and now somewhat dated , but still very useful book . |
| 16 | Evolution has given us the Canaletto whose complex city perspectives recede infinitely away and now it is itself seen regressing as |
| 17 | Dot had been away and now she had come back . |
| 18 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 19 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
| 20 | You got nowhere and the reason leaked away and now you 're just doing it . |
| 21 | The work was completed , the Tyndalls eventually passed away and now the University has a music Department housed in pure poetry . |
| 22 | Drama above and now the same below . |
| 23 | ‘ Stand at ease , Piper , ’ remarked Charlie , a big grin on his face , then he went serious and remarked slowly , ‘ You have done what you came here to do , Piper ; you piped Lovat 's brigade ashore and now I would like you to return to Achnacarry with me this evening . |
| 24 | But he got ‘ caught ’ , this one could n't be brushed off so easily and now , ten months later , he was in a situation that he both loves and hates . |
| 25 | It is only quite lately and now that we are able regularly to get strengths which are a large fraction of the theoretical value , that it has become really important and worthwhile to make materials with very strong chemical bonds . |
| 26 | Hari nodded , she was glad of the trade , orders had dropped off lately and now she no longer had the boots of Edward Morris to repair , she was finding work hard to come by . |
| 27 | But since then , it 's expanded massively and now contains subjects as diverse as the Cook collection , relics from Captain Cook 's voyage to the South Pacific in 1772 , to totem poles donated by a North American Indian tribe . |
| 28 | Others ( conservative-mod element ) had short hair anyway and now had it just a tad shorter — the new mood suited them . |
| 29 | The big black Mercedes was still outside and now its boot and all its doors were open and Mr and Mrs Wormwood and the brother were scurrying around it like ants , piling in the suitcases , as Matilda and Miss Honey came dashing up . |
| 30 | On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card . |