Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] now [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once in the house , he carved himself a slice of meat from an ancient joint , put it on a slice of bread , and settled down at his desk with a sigh of pleasure , preparing to continue work on the Gaelic Dictionary on Historical Principles which he had been occupied with now for nearly forty years . |
| 2 | What has been overlooked in this debate is that , whilst Gilbert & George or Howard Hodgkin won the prize in the past , neither Bridget Riley or Gillian Ayres for example , will be looked at now as potential winners . |
| 3 | All of us should know by now of the decision taken at the special church meeting on 13th May to go ahead with the purchase of the Camphill building . |
| 4 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 5 | Anyone with a home proving difficult to sell — which means just about everyone — will be resigned by now to a peeling , semi-permanent board mated to the gatepost . |
| 6 | Was n't she used by now to disguising her love for him ? |
| 7 | The Bundesbank has been seen until now as Europe 's guardian against rapid price increases . |
| 8 | The ‘ standard model ’ of particle physics , which explains everything seen until now by particle experimenters , contains three generations of subatomic particles . |
| 9 | He is sitting at his desk , with the window I 'm looking at now beside him . |
| 10 | We have seen by now in a good number of cases , including those immediately above , that when one takes account of the interaction between the meanings of particular words and the value of the constructions in which they may be used , it is often easy to see why certain structures are grammatical , and others are not ; this may enable us to say in turn why other related structures are ungrammatical . |
| 11 | the adjustable types of fittings and er , and in , it all really led up to what people are going for now in , in their houses , they want spotlights , erm clipped on , screwed on the ceiling , screwed on the walls er |
| 12 | actually going into now on , in July . |
| 13 | We 're going to now from first of all I 'll say it in order and then you can come up . |
| 14 | I was used by now to her abrupt disappearances . |
| 15 | The three two lurchers and a Staffordshire bull terrier are being cared for now by the RSPCA workers who believe they had n't eaten for at least a month . |
| 16 | He stays behind now with the old men , women and children while the rest of the village puts to sea for nine months . " |
| 17 | The objectors also say if that takes from now to Christmas , then so be it . |
| 18 | He was based by now in Paris , but Russia haunted him . |
| 19 | He 'd have been retired by now on a modest pension leading a life of genteel poverty in Brighton or Torquay . |
| 20 | er , it can be a very terrifying experience for a woman , but I think part of the mental experience would be coming forward to the police and they had dealt with now in a far more caring and understanding manner , that that can actually help in a process of getting over it eventually . |
| 21 | ( Interest rate ceilings have persisted until now in some other countries , including Canada , the United States , Belgium and France . ) |
| 22 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 23 | Organ jazz has long been club-trendy , but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and John Patton . |
| 24 | But it 's taken until now for a stage version to appear in Britain . |
| 25 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 26 | At first sight this would appear to be a new development , but in reality it reflects a long-term trend which has been masked until now by a series of new acquisitions which have increased total sales each year . |
| 27 | Although her much earlier work of semi-architectural constructions on a theatrical scale hinted at a different sort of audience participation , away from that of the story telling object , it has taken till now for her to challenge the viewer in an open way . |
| 28 | " What 's that you 're carrying ? " asked Mrs Woodie , resigned by now to almost anything . |
| 29 | ‘ If it was biological as opposed to chemical it might have been unstable , mutated by now into something non-lethal . |
| 30 | It was over finance in the end , but that 's all I want to say for now on that matter . |