Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] now [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | There was an air of concentration around the board now that the lesser players had been removed from the Game . |
2 | Yeah erm you give you give you give me the money now and I 'll give you the elephant later it 's just round the corner . |
3 | They make the money now and it goes like flipping water . |
4 | Have actually already covered them another time and I do n't want to get deeper in the stealth now than that , there 's a limit on the time now available this morning . |
5 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
6 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
7 | The McDermott 's also called on the police to look at the possibility of re-examining the case now that DNA testing is possible . |
8 | There are certainly fewer trained health workers in the field now than in 1985 . |
9 | She tried to distract him as best she could , showing him how to make totems , begging Urran to let Nathan use the computer now and again . |
10 | she said do you wan na come in and look at the kitchen now and I said no I wo n't stop now I 'll work |
11 | The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came . |
12 | Just the starter now cos she 's . |
13 | And you just look down the route now and decide whether they 're achievable or realistic . |
14 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
15 | The difference between the West now and the West in the nineteenth century , is that now the largest part of the price for development is paid by the invisible people of the so-called Third World , rather than by the pauperised urban proletariat of mills , mines and factories , though there are still some of them about too . |
16 | The sun had moved towards the west now and the cloud had broken , sweeping sunlight along the Dales , silvering the river and cutting hard shadows by walls and hedges . |
17 | Staff remain with the horses at the races — but they have to pop to the loo now and again . ’ |
18 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |
19 | Into the roud-up now and it 's cricket first … |
20 | Into the roud-up now and it 's cricket first … |
21 | He was n't in residence at the college now and had a small flat in Gloucester . |
22 | But there are flaws in the fabric now and Blackburn exploited them as well as anyone . |
23 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
24 | Delegates at Blackpool voted overwhelmingly to re-admit the EETPU now that it has merged with the engineers to form the million-strong AEEU . |
25 | Patrick had the measure of the car now and did not hesitate to impose the authority of the Jaguar on other road users . |
26 | In the front seats of the car next to them , two men were talking business , the driver taking his hands from the wheel now and then to amplify whatever point he was making . |
27 | Concern was expressed that the country , once a key strategic ally of the USA , would descend further into anarchy ; Zaïrean exiles also expressed fears that Mobutu would be tempted to use force against the opposition now that foreign troops had been withdrawn . |
28 | We 'll take the break now but stay tuned and stand by your phones because coming up … |
29 | The Louts were a bunch of youths from another district who came to the club now and again and mildly disturbed the dances . |
30 | ‘ There is a brilliant atmosphere at the club now and when I was at Forest we did n't have this sort of camaraderie . ’ |