Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has decided now that horses are the thing . |
| 2 | I know the Chinese accent has disappeared now but he goes now ! |
| 3 | Touch wood , that attitude has continued now that I 'm being more positive and less of a wimp . |
| 4 | If the average life expectancy is about seventy years , how many years have you got left now and how are you going to get the most from them ? |
| 5 | I mean if we get finished now and clean the ki cooker and and clean everything and say right , we 're out of the kitchen then , nothing more tonight . |
| 6 | His face looked drawn now that the flush of exertion from the last descent had left it . |
| 7 | I think I should begin to get changed now if I were you . |
| 8 | You should get married now and get that baby started . |
| 9 | Then she said , I 've arranged now if you would like to go down and speak in er a meeting in Oxford . |
| 10 | The voices had stopped now but an illuminating mist seemed.to fill the room with a white incandescent glow . |
| 11 | The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away . |
| 12 | You know er I ca n't think of a work we 've done now but er |
| 13 | We 've decided now that you you must n't treat me like a chi child . |
| 14 | but er , as I say they 've grown now and got these jobs and they 're quite happy . |
| 15 | No not you get different statements different erm I would n't like to repeat some of them right , but if them lads sat down and studied it erm same as I 've said now and they say , Well yes aye . |
| 16 | just write down all the information we 've got now so there is can recycling at the swimming pool and at Tesco privately run . |
| 17 | Only when you can see words that we 've got now that adapted from words then . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He just wants a better one than they 've got now but a very basic |
| 20 | Erm but what you 've got now if you , can I pass those round and I 'll explain what that says . |
| 21 | And er I I do n't know where they 've gone now but I had some lovely photographs of these flats . |
| 22 | They 've gone now and it 's nice and peaceful just lying here doing nothing . |
| 23 | The sun had gone now and , once on dry land , I began to walk to the stockade . |
| 24 | Would her mother 's actions destroy the only friendship she had left now that her father was dead ? |
| 25 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 26 | Some of the local gentry and squireens , who had returned now that the danger was over , joined in the fun . |
| 27 | His courage had returned now that he knew the tiger was only proposing to gobble up his oxen , not him . |
| 28 | She was transfixed as he sauntered slowly towards her , conscious that everything had changed now that Peter was gone . |
| 29 | There have been scientific developments , of course , in chemistry , but perhaps it 's seen now as being more important in the context of the contribution it 's making to other important areas such as biology , environmental science and so forth . |
| 30 | Because , she 's moved now and she does n't care fo , what happens now . |