Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 2 | Otherwise she 'd have come through by now . ’ |
| 3 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , hopefully , it 'll all be sorted out by now ; Jennifer was going to explain everything at home . ’ |
| 5 | They will have moved on by now — surely. ? " |
| 6 | I 'm watching Chris and Dave fool around at a disc presentation ceremony , a routine they 're well versed in by now , and talking kilt tartans to Matt Cameron from Soundgarden , who were due to play here with Guns N' Roses the following night but the gig 's been cancelled . |
| 7 | If winning one battle meant you won the war , IBM would have it all sewn up by now , but that 's not the case . |
| 8 | Autism is a very profound cognitive deficit indeed , and everything that I have said up to now entails that a person whose thinking significantly lacks an holistic character , and lacks the related qualities of directedness , inhibition and co-ordination , will be profoundly affected . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose I should have said up to now , ’ Mark replied disarmingly . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I have n't done up to now . ’ |
| 11 | What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers , which we call cists , and which have been uncovered up to now ? |
| 12 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 13 | I checked my watch — a few minutes past five and decided that if Charlie had n't turned up by now he was unlikely to appear before the next day . |
| 14 | She may have hung up by now . ’ |
| 15 | we 've seen up to now not with any with full sort of real erm |
| 16 | Acidifying droplets can reduce the growth of trees and crops , at concentrations far lower , than had been suspected up to now . |
| 17 | ‘ Not by comparison with what I have endured up to now , ’ Theda said quietly . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's really strange , ’ he muses , ‘ I thought things would have died down by now , because I did the music such a long time ago . |
| 19 | ‘ Most of them have probably caved in by now . |
| 20 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 21 | It has , however , not been shown up to now that eradication of H pylori modifies parietal cell mass or acid secretion rates . |
| 22 | the , the in-house , friendly at atmosphere we 've had up to now , er non-competitive , across to what we 're gon na see in the future , in the future , which is competitive with a professional client giving a professional remit to a number of tenderers , which will be us . |
| 23 | Do my right hon. and hon. Friends agree that the magnificent and heroic performance of our pilots in the Gulf thoroughly vindicates the training programme that we have had up to now ? |
| 24 | However , the independence that HMI has had up to now has been deeply embarrassing to the Government . |
| 25 | The only aid agreed up to now is 50 million ecu pledged by the EC . |
| 26 | I had sobered up by now and felt terrible . |
| 27 | Doctor Martin Novak 's team believes the virus does n't lie dormant as had been thought up till now , but rather copies itself or mutates . |
| 28 | The RISC-based — R3000 or R3000A presumably , since that is what it has used up to now — XfaceC or XfC , is designed to bring colour graphics capabilities to users that require a compact , high resolution , easily transportable X terminal . |
| 29 | Because it should have healed up by now . |
| 30 | ‘ The backup systems should have kicked in by now . |