Example sentences of "now [coord] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Now can you write out either now or just before I or when I 've gone what you 're going to do |
2 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |
3 | ‘ We 're there or thereabouts now and even though we might have lost by the odd goal , we 're still bubbling . |
4 | An apple now and again but it |
5 | He looks right David Lawrence I must say and that was a very , very quick delivery and getting back to your other point , that slips coming forward going back , it 's just every now and again that it does n't come out right from David Lawrence , it goes down comparatively slowly , but when he does get it right , it really flies through to slips . |
6 | You can imagine the population of th , of a nearby town , every now and again they would come down and perhaps throw some food over in this man 's direction a loaf of bread , a , a a a a a a , a hunk of meat or , some other food every now and again so he would keep alive . |
7 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
8 | Make a habit of the place and you 'll fall asleep but wander down there every now and again and you 'll find an edge most other Liverpool drinking streets lack . |
9 | I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away . |
10 | I would never go out like what Tony was saying you know he does n't drink at all and like he 'd be in a pub maybe seven days a week but I would take a drink now and again and I might n't go into a pub once in a month maybe . |
11 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
12 | And we 'd knock out things like ‘ Slow Death ’ by The Flamin' Groovies — who also used to come in the shop now and again when they were in town . |
13 | Just now and again when they do get , you know , just past you , you just have to say now look go or else I 'm going to call the police , and they go . |
14 | ‘ No … now and again when we were bold , but like any house . ’ |
15 | But Paddy mentions her now and again when he 's writin' . |
16 | Reassure your language helper every now and then that you appreciate correction . |
17 | I pass by the house now and then but it does n't seem awfully real to me yet . |
18 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
19 | There 's occasional sparks now and then so it must be still going . |
20 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
21 | Every now and then when they feel like it , take a handful of films and get them developed . |
22 | Oh do n't worry about it now , all the plastic things then put put on that blue leaflet for now and then when you 've taken them all off you can put them in the bin . |
23 | ‘ I do n't know ; I drop in now and then when I 'm in town — a fortnight ? three weeks , perhaps . ’ |
24 | There is a history of heart disease in her family so Doc D gets her cholesterol checked every now and then and they make it a policy not to keep cheese in the house . |
25 | I sit down with Paul Franklin every now and then and we swap licks — just basically show each other what we know . |
26 | The butcher lets me have a pound of dripping now and then and I can make it last . |
27 | Oz edged carefully down the slope , crouching every now and then as he reached a little bilberry bush . |
28 | He 'd do the parties now and then as he used to . |
29 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |