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 . |