Example sentences of "[noun pl] now [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waves had white caps now and they seemed to effervesce as they swept by . |
| 2 | I think perhaps one difference is they 've become much larger and more complicated and I certainly think that parents in particular tend to expect far more of schools now than they used to . |
| 3 | His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before . |
| 4 | What was Britain going to do about its colonial subjects now that they laid claim to ‘ Britishness ’ ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 7 | They 've done this for that three years now and they |
| 8 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 9 | They say things are better for the bairns now since they brought the hours down to ten , but some of the pigs get over that . |
| 10 | And many of those who still have jobs get shorter breaks now than they used to as their firms struggle to survive in the recession . |
| 11 | And they 're paying her forty five a week , she does about forty nine hours now and they 've |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That 's for the cops now but they do n't seem to be worried . |
| 14 | And I and I do n't know whether they still have the wooden lockers now but they used to be , have to be all scrubbed out every week . |
| 15 | " They like easy trading routes now and they have forgotten old navigation ways . |
| 16 | The last glow had gone from the sunflowers now and they hung their heads on their spindly supports . |
| 17 | Right okay so they can , they can , I ca they can er curse me and send me death threats now if they so desire . |
| 18 | Because they put 3 passes together 4 years ago does not make them a footballing side and they are only making friends now cos they are an easy touch . |
| 19 | That evening the periti were thanked for their help , and urged to go on talking to bishops now that they had learned to do so . |
| 20 | If holders of speculative balances are of the general opinion that the price of bonds will fall in the near future ( i.e. their yield will rise ) , then they will not purchase these assets now because they will suffer a capital loss if their expectations are borne out by experience . |
| 21 | They know me and Paul and Steve 'cos we 've been around here in this bit of the London Road for three seasons now and they know that we would n't let them down . ’ |
| 22 | For the most part they were nominally Muslims now but they appeared to have an idea of torturable classes . |
| 23 | 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 . |