Example sentences of "now [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the signs on the station platform she could see now where they were . |
| 2 | They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out . |
| 3 | But the simple reason that the men the local men had nothing to do with making the agreement now so they lose they lost interest in the trade union movement . |
| 4 | Wilsons , Samuel , Sam Smith 's erm it 's , it 's th you know , it 's they 've all brought each other up now so they can virtually get anything . |
| 5 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 6 | I could see now that they were Royal Marine Commandos , No. 46 Commando of 4th Commando Brigade . |
| 7 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 8 | And now that they can be found in every colour under the sun , they 're even more versatile . |
| 9 | Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy . |
| 10 | Now that they are giving it some serious work , they need a leader who can talk confidently to them and who can behave with authority on the world 's television screens . |
| 11 | He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis . |
| 12 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 13 | Now that they had n't Baby to visit any more , all that was bound to start again . |
| 14 | Now that they knew he would be leaving , the literary confraternity had already started to turn their backs on him , and had begun to scan the possible replacements in the current British intellectual mafia . |
| 15 | What the East Germans are finding , however , now that they can read what is written , is that friends and neighbours often freely volunteered to inform , often with lies . |
| 16 | Which just leaves her domestic credentials to knock into shape , and now that they 're under scrutiny I realise I 've not done a very good job at all . |
| 17 | Even the Commission acknowledges that 10 per cent of the EC 's annual budget — about £3 billion — is still being lost in fraud ; it is a point the British will not forbear to mention now that they are being asked to pay an extra £1 billion per year into EC coffers . |
| 18 | Standard procedure after an election is to review the spending promises which were put in to please voters and , now that they have served their turn , cut some of them out . |
| 19 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 20 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 21 | They have not handed over the arguments to be articulated by lawyers and scientists even now that they have taken the city and the tannery to court in a law-suit claim for $31 million . |
| 22 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 23 | Now that they appeared to diverge a problem had arisen . |
| 24 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 25 | What was Britain going to do about its colonial subjects now that they laid claim to ‘ Britishness ’ ? |
| 26 | Now that they were the owners of Rafferty 's , they adjusted the rules sufficiently to allow themselves a drink after hours . |
| 27 | Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth , |
| 28 | I think one of my main fears has been the children moving away now that they are grown up . |
| 29 | Many people make their retirement the occasion for the ‘ holiday of a lifetime ’ , now that they have the time to indulge themselves . |
| 30 | And a year later , researchers have lost their motivation now that they find promises of more money have been broken . ’ |