Example sentences of "do now " in BNC.

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1 I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training .
2 Harriet plucks me by the sleeve and whispers , ‘ Mummy , what will Tracey 's Gran do now she 's dead , if she wants to go to the loo ? ’
3 But you do now , darling , and I do wish you would n't .
4 ‘ And what do you and I do now ?
5 You will feel the cold even more when you ca n't get about as you do now , and you will be even more bored and lonely .
6 Whether or not she reported this condition to the divisional veterinary officer and showed him photographs , I do now know .
7 WP Have you always done the kind of work you do now ?
8 Or are you going to start getting even less money than you do now , and want me to take a cut in the housekeeping ?
9 Whatever else we do now , we almost certainly work .
10 The Wedding Present did n't sound like they do now .
11 But you do now have a link which could be tested to see if it is valid .
12 Sheep and goats grazed the plains , the common land , as they do now in Africa .
13 Children were n't allowed to share the adult world to the same degree as they do now .
14 ‘ I do now . ’
15 Perhaps the most important question in the wake of IT Year must be : what will Kenneth Baker do now that he is at a loose end ?
16 BUSES rumbling through the city streets in 1986 could need 30 per cent less fuel than they do now to bring the cry ‘ standing room only ’ to impatient queues .
17 But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’
18 Concerning those chemical changes , which were of fantastic magnitude , taking place during the first of these periods , it is probably true to say that most established religions do now , perhaps reluctantly , accept as true the scientific theories governing the associated processes of evolution .
19 ‘ We may feel younger than we do now , ’ said Gay seriously .
20 In the early days we ventured further afield than we do now , working in Suffolk , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Surrey .
21 The programme in 1988 was basically the same , and I am sure audience and choirs stood then , as they do now , for the ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus .
22 He said , ‘ When I saw more of Eva than I do now , she was often unstable .
23 Except in unusual circumstance , each day 's business ends with a half-hour debate on the motion that ‘ the House do now adjourn ’ .
24 But I do now .
25 Some instruments do now have built-in reverberation effects , but this is a far from universal feature .
26 There 's plenty ti do now Jonna 's gone and besides , it 's not a man 's place .
27 For the venues that I do now , I prefer the ‘ bigness ’ of sound of the Takamine , though .
28 ‘ Well , I do now . ’
29 I 'd never do what I do now if it was n't for Summerhill 's free-wheeling , timeless , non-routine approach to getting through when life 's off the rails .
30 Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now .
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