Example sentences of "now [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's happened now so we never |
| 2 | There 's loads of good , fresh and low-calorie fruit , vegetables and salads in the shops right now so you really have n't got any excuse to keep putting it off ! |
| 3 | Dubious Penalty , AND a late goal It must be dream , Its taken a year , but now that its here you watch us go … |
| 4 | GUN LAW : ‘ There are more guns down there now that we ever thought possible . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There are more guns there now that we ever thought possible . ’ |
| 6 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |
| 7 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 8 | I — somehow I ca n't believe even now that we really are grown up . |
| 9 | ‘ We know now that we really lost the tie in Moscow , when we made the mistake of trying to chase the game instead of playing it tight . ’ |
| 10 | They used to be called blue-green algae because they appeared to be close relatives of the green algae that are common in ponds , but now that their very primitive character is recognised , they are referred to as cyanophytes or simply , blue-greens . |
| 11 | He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis . |
| 12 | but we must sort of all pull in together as a situation in Scotland now that which really concerns me and I 'd |
| 13 | Since she has pushed the decade for almost her entire career , one can only wonder what she 'll do now that everyone else has followed suit . |
| 14 | And I do n't care now that everyone else knows . |
| 15 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
| 16 | Another of my concerns was that Mrs Allen would not bother to cook and eat meals now that she no longer had to prepare anything for her husband . |
| 17 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 18 | But it is in defence where Clough faces his biggest problem — now that he no longer has Des Walker . |
| 19 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 20 | He sought , self-consciously , now that he once again walked those familiar streets , to catch up with that other , vanished self who , at this distance , seemed more real than the person he had become . |
| 21 | There were so many cracks in it now that it barely held at all . |
| 22 | Now that he was no longer a virgin and now that it no longer mattered very much , he succeeded in seducing Rosie . |
| 23 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 24 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 25 | I prayed that God would protect them , now that I no longer could , and that he would bring them close to him too . |
| 26 | I once governed you [ for so she thinks ] and you did as I wanted , you let me deliver Dulé , my wonder , my child , a hero to our people , from death by water , I healed the barren and the sick and granted the silly dreams of lovers , and much other magic besides , so HEAR ME NOW , now that I only hear groans and Dulé hobbles on slit ankles as he rails and Ariel is captive again and croons over Roukoubé and does not speak . |
| 27 | ‘ r wished now that I never . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Now that I never thought to ask . |
| 29 | I 'd read it when I was doing my A levels at the crammer , but it was only now that I really appreciated it . |
| 30 | But I am so worried now that I really would say , okay I 'll discuss it with Zain but let's not wait until the committee meeting , next committee meeting , let's do it as soon as we can . |