Example sentences of "[adj] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm lighter now than I was at Tottenham . |
| 2 | Amazed , she looked around and saw the valley surrounding her , its garnet shadows scarfed by nacreous mist , but it was definitely lighter now . |
| 3 | It was lighter now . |
| 4 | Oh have you got a lighter now ? |
| 5 | Again she looked at him , almost resentful now ; a reaction to the fight beginning to set in . |
| 6 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
| 7 | ‘ And I 'm fatter now . ’ |
| 8 | It is very heartening now to witness some of the excellent combat shots taken at the time — Eighth Air Force bombers being escorted to places as far afield as Berlin with a mass of Packard Merlin-engined Mustangs indulging in a leapfrog technique which meant fighter waves could follow the bombers , fight and be relieved by another escort wave . |
| 9 | After all , you would n't continue driving your car with the oil pressure light aglow now would you ? |
| 10 | — How long Duncan ? — It 's different now we 're married . |
| 11 | The first is that British society and the role of government are radically different now from what they were thirty years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel no different now to how I felt when I was 30 ’ |
| 13 | To say merely that ‘ things are different now ’ is hardly any consolation for the pain and bitterness of past experience and bears little assurance of a future political and military stability in Europe . |
| 14 | So different now , even on dark mornings . |
| 15 | We are not quite back where we began , for human dominion over the earth is different now . |
| 16 | My problems are precisely the same as my father 's , but the climate 's different now : in those days , people who had large houses were thought to be plutocrats who ran society , the Establishment if you like . |
| 17 | It 's totally different now . |
| 18 | I wonder if it will be any different now ? |
| 19 | ‘ He just ca n't seem to understand that it 's different now . |
| 20 | It is so different now from when it was built in 1690 as a charming summer palazzo of only two floors . |
| 21 | The Commission reported that although 9.3 per cent of all seventeen-year-olds ( boys and girls ) were in independent schools of all kinds , boys from boarding Public Schools were statistically overrepresented in many careers : 49.3 per cent among the heads of colleges and professors at Oxford and Cambridge , 42 per cent in the Labour Cabinet of the day and 90.9 per cent in its Conservative predecessor ( things are no different now ) , 75 per cent among Church of England bishops , 79.2 per cent among judges and QCs , and 43 per cent among successful applicants to the Administrative Civil Service ( in the years l963–7 ) . |
| 22 | It was different now . |
| 23 | But everything was different now . |
| 24 | In Ballachulish an old man , who had no recollection of the jackdaws , told me , ‘ We all have our names for these mountains but they call them different now . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , this is nineteen forty seven , and it 's all different now , is n't it ? ’ she said with seeming innocence . |
| 26 | The attitude to unmarried mothers is very different now from a generation ago , but it is still a tragedy for most families if a schoolgirl daughter becomes pregnant . |
| 27 | Things are going to be different now . |
| 28 | and airedales were no different now from what they were then . |
| 29 | Her dreams have returned , but different now , |
| 30 | ‘ Eldorado is substantially different now but to get people to admit that is an uphill struggle . |