Example sentences of "it now [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whereas I would play twice over a weekend , it now takes me until Tuesday to get over a match . ’ |
| 2 | Just thinking about it now made her tilt her chin higher . |
| 3 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 4 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
| 5 | Take particular care that you insert a modification record with a issue number larger than 00.00Z ( the alpha character on the end of the issue number , the Development Code is mandatory ) , and that you then update the package 's pointer to itself so that it now selects itself at this new issue number . |
| 6 | yes , I 've drunk it now thank you |
| 7 | As clouds of the invaders reached Texas , a U N fact-finding commission reported that the Odonata ( it now became their official name ) lived for only seven months in their adult winged phase . |
| 8 | And he does it now does he ? |
| 9 | That 's it now put your foot right through the window . |
| 10 | If he 'd already known Ryan , which it now seemed he did , had he then looked up her parents deliberately ? |
| 11 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the fund-holding system has been a spectacular success — so much so that many of the more trendy , intellectual GPs who were initially sceptical of it now welcome it more and more with open arms ? |
| 12 | They can look at it now get it out of the way . |
| 13 | It may be a reader of The Guardian today after two years of seeing it now gets it . |
| 14 | It now affects one in 10 adults and one in 5 children . |
| 15 | So what have you got to do to it now to make it into a ninety ? |
| 16 | And until the Church begins to acknowledge and address the century in which it now finds itself , it will die . |
| 17 | After many years in its free-standing position it now finds itself neatly stacked against the side of the grandstand . |
| 18 | It now leaves me with only the very pleasant duty to declare the congress open and to wish it great success . |
| 19 | It now leaves him free to criticise other results of the massively funded but unregulated conservation industry . |
| 20 | Despite his casual dress of jeans and shirt , there was still an air of sophistication about him that was in sharp variance to those around him , and she cursed Donal again for his stupid sense of humour because it now put her in the most ridiculous position . |
| 21 | But it it now gives me the opportunity to use it er for the purpose in which |
| 22 | The situation has been altered since , and although Orkney still does not have its own procurator Fiscal , it now shares one with Shetland . |
| 23 | With a timetable to them we are in the best place to do it now cause we 're still learning we have only done three jobs , four now have n't we ? erm the Kathy procedure is definitely needed . |
| 24 | Barcelona became once more a great Mediterranean port — its trade , which had been the pride of medieval Catalonia , had quintupled since the early years of the century — and it now started its career as an industrial city . |
| 25 | and I think it 's perhaps important to start with that we go with something that 's a little bit open-ended that we can review in a years time er , perhaps a little bit later and say well look we have shown that we can do it valuably er the proof is in the pudding , it now beholds everybody to do it this way . |
| 26 | In the four decades since the break with the Soviet Union in 1948 Yugoslavia had been the most open and liberal communist state , but in the wake of the recent overthrow of communist monopolies across Eastern Europe it now found itself , as The Times of Jan. 19 noted , " at the tail-end of East European reforms " . |
| 27 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 28 | Since 1980 , the protection of the law against the closed shop had been progressively extended so that it now covered everyone in employment . |
| 29 | It now classes them as fixed assets at cost , less any permanent diminution in value . |
| 30 | And if the government had provided it for his use , why was it now prosecuting him for using it ? |