Example sentences of "[noun] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Memories of the Benn-Healey contest now count against him . |
| 2 | Are shoppers now expected to hover over the vegetable counter at the supermarket , stricken with anxiety trying to remember which greens cause cancer and which do not ? |
| 3 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 4 | June 's having noticed him when they first met and her ability to put things into words now became unbearable to Robert . |
| 5 | Do your words now mean what I think they mean ? ’ |
| 6 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 7 | The thing about it is , I mean they 've all got eat their words now have n't they ? |
| 8 | The new , unintentional play on words now includes the idea of the quantity of dead things inside the idea of the death-knell ; " We 've lost a lot " , it hints , in losing etymological attitudes . |
| 9 | InterCity now has a range of offers — first class , standard and the Saver ticket — the purpose of which is , by offering varying fares to channel demand so that it can spread the load over existing capacity . |
| 10 | His office was just along the corridor from where Wanless now sits in his ornately furnished chief executive 's eyrie . |
| 11 | Her earlier haverings now struck her as selfish . |
| 12 | Ewing and McCracken now have 41 points in the championship , four more than Fletcher and Erwin who share second place with Alan McCann and Philip Murray who finished in third place last night . |
| 13 | Mr Rockoff now sports a long grey beard and was often in evidence , smoking fat cigarettes . |
| 14 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |
| 15 | In Sweden , British species such as dog rose , cowslip and ladies ' bedstraw are thought to have been lost from polluted woods , where the nitrogen-loving nettle and acid-tolerant wood sorrel now occur . |
| 16 | There will be the closures and mothballing of pits , there will be a reduction of Apex jobs under the reorganization now taking place and steps towards privatization will begin . |
| 17 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 18 | With the charismatic Mr Draskovic out of action , the opposition now seems too weak to stage any serious protests against the government . |
| 19 | These squares now expand at the corners and erode along the sides , returning to square shape after another doubling of total generations . |
| 20 | The struggle for the succession now lay more narrowly between Kikuyu claimants and Vice-president Moi . |
| 21 | The indictment now levelled against the Government is that the years of Thatcherite prosperity have been matched by a deterioration in public services and the environment . |
| 22 | With the fans now streaming through the turnstiles , many of them being stopped and searched before going any further , there 's a final briefing for the man who could influence their mood , referee Paul Harrison . |
| 23 | Scottish football has been sponsored by the DIY chain at whose stores erstwhile football fans now spend their Saturday afternoons . |
| 24 | A marvellous fourth round Cup Tie , a pulsating game up here at White Hart Lane , watched by a very big crowd , and those five thousand or so Oxford United fans now making their way home down the M twenty five and the M forty , can be justly proud of their side . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , at clubs like Tottenham and Ajax of Amsterdam , fans now celebrate their club 's Jewish associations after suffering years of abuse for the same . |
| 26 | The señora now arrives to be told the story . |
| 27 | Corbett now closed the trap , trying hard to control his excitement . |
| 28 | In fact , ’ Corbett now tried to clear the doubts in his own mind , ‘ why did n't the Queen send out a search-party for her husband ? |
| 29 | Corbett now examined the blackened remains of the water bucket . |
| 30 | As I indicated , colleagues , it 's my intention now to go round the regions and ask regions whether they wish to put a speaker in . |