Example sentences of "they now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now seemed too cautious , too reluctant to admit to the most defective aspects of the post-medieval Catholic tradition , too little aware of the real situation in the Church of the southern hemisphere ( whose voice was heard remarkably little in the Council 's debates ) . |
| 2 | They now seemed enormous , with the swell surging up their black , shining sides . |
| 3 | ‘ Social democracy ’ scored better than ‘ communism ’ or ‘ liberalism ’ when Poles and Hungarians were asked how they now felt about these ‘ isms ’ in a poll that was organised recently by a French firm , Conseils-Sondages-Analyses and Le Journal des Elections . |
| 4 | These children felt let down by their parents , there was no emotional link and they now felt free of them . |
| 5 | In the most organic , visceral way possible they now felt bonded with utter intimacy to their Chapter , digested by it . |
| 6 | Todd Mitchell asked his friends whether they now felt like beating up white people . |
| 7 | They now felt the retribution of the BIA , whose conduct was aggressive , often violent . |
| 8 | Part of this was because they now felt they had missed being pregnant , missed the recognition and attention this involves , and simply the enjoyment it can bring . |
| 9 | Charlie looked down and checked the length of his trousers : they now hung a good inch above the laces of his boots . |
| 10 | They now try to seek out alliances with other companies that want their materials recycled and companies willing to buy recyclables and make them into something useful . |
| 11 | They now claim a 1% reduction in this disease , compared with an estimated increase of 1.5% if they had not stuck it in their selection index ( see page 49 ) . |
| 12 | Teachers also confess that , for the first time , they now know what they are supposed to be teaching and ( thanks to the elaborate assessment targets ) how well they are teaching it . |
| 13 | We have to recall what we said , what they now know . ’ |
| 14 | They now know which customers we want to increase the business with because the credit risk is low and we are ‘ under exposed ’ , and which market sectors we wish to restrict our exposure in . ’ |
| 15 | So it was good , good to see it cos then they now know that it 's , that 's |
| 16 | They were , almost without exception , young scions of old notable families of the towns they now represented , persuaded by their families to stand for election in order to maintain the family interest . |
| 17 | The public have had some sideways glances at them — they now deserve to see the full picture . |
| 18 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 19 | Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare . |
| 20 | Having relied on the administration to perpetrate abuses on their behalf , they now believed that it was abandoning them . |
| 21 | Of course such a supper , minus the wine , she might have eaten on any of the evenings ( and they now stretched back a long way ) when she found herself alone . |
| 22 | They now proceeded to criticize a number of left-wing Labour councils for their management of particular policies . |
| 23 | However , given the history of the relationship between the Inns and the judges which we have recited in this judgment we can see nothing conceptually difficult about the judges , as visitors , telling the Inns that they now perceived that their particular disciplinary procedures were unfair and needed rectification , even though they had concurred , in principle , in the creation of those procedures . |
| 24 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 25 | They now put this figure at around 400 people . ’ |
| 26 | Representations of female sexuality here were not merely negative , they now offered women positive images of their own autonomy through a stress on celibacy , evolutionary superiority and the power of human love . |
| 27 | All who had gone to help the stricken townsfolk mixed with those who had lived through the disaster , and were present to mourn and pay a last tribute to their relatives , friends and neighbours , whose coffins , borne by men of the Fire Service , they now followed . |
| 28 | They now bet : 2–1 Lyric Fantasy , 3–1 Wolfhound , 5–1 Paris House , 11–2 Zeiten , 10–1 Gharah , 14–1 Surprise Offer , 16–1 bar . |
| 29 | They d have n't got a clue see have they now Bet ? |
| 30 | Where , for example , would they now go to school ? |