Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dull red glow was all about them now and the baleful light fell across the Robemaker 's cloaked figure so that , although his face remained hidden , Nuadu caught the glitter of his eyes , red and inverted and , despite the belching heat , he felt ice close about his heart . |
| 2 | Three old mill stones serve as the steps up to the door of the mill , an aesthetically appealing alternative use for them now that they are no longer required for the purpose for which they were designed . |
| 3 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 4 | They both looked relaxed , an easy familiarity between them now that they were away from the office and cut free from the restrictions of boss and secretary . |
| 5 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 6 | My friends wait for me now but never mind . ’ |
| 7 | John was just running it for me now so I 'll pick it up on the way home tonight . |
| 8 | Southall waits for me now when I arrive and make a fuss of me — I can even hug Kizzy . |
| 9 | You feel sorry for me now because I 'm ill . |
| 10 | They were coming towards them now and Fernando had n't seen her yet ; this was so awful . |
| 11 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 12 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 13 | Well you 've had your hands on all of them now so it 's probably highly likely . |
| 14 | They said well er I thought perhaps he was away preaching , she says oh no they do n't want any of m our people used to go out a lot preaching , but they do n't want any of them now because it 's too deep for them |
| 15 | That 's one size stockings there 's not much left in the way of them now because most people you know do n't wear stockings , these are pop |
| 16 | I often think of them now as I share a strawberry daiquiri with Morrissey and Loz from Kingmaker in the Hyatt Buenos Aires . |
| 17 | He could see Hawkbit running towards him now and two or three of the others — Silver , Dandelion and Pipkin . |
| 18 | He put out his hand towards her now but did n't touch her , saying , ‘ Do n't faint ; it wo n't help you any because I 'll only revive you with a jug of cold water and make you listen to the finish . |
| 19 | The man motioned his hand towards Agnes ; and the man called Willie stepped towards her now and said , ‘ No ; this one was younger and very bonny . ’ |
| 20 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 21 | He was far more suspicious of her now than he had been before she 'd told him about Dana , and he still thought she was Garry 's lover . |
| 22 | I was afraid of him now that he was angry again . |
| 23 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 24 | I divided some of those files into sub-files and we have got rid of quite a bit of it now so you need n't be frightened of coming back to week-end working . |
| 25 | Clearly any or all of these are possible but erm er naturally you would understand that if you had them daily by film you would be having you know ninety pieces of paper er and clearly that may not be appropriate at times well times , you know hundreds by the looks of it now but usually times ten at least . |
| 26 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 27 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 28 | The Captain ( Tim Forster ) is very good to me and there 's no pressure on either of us now that I 'm no longer stable jockey . |
| 29 | We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer . |
| 30 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |