Example sentences of "it now " in BNC.

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1 I indulge in it now because the audiences who heard them endured , with much patience , extremes of heat and cold .
2 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
3 The reason destroying it now would be no solution , he wrote , is that what sickens me is not the object itself but the time and thought I have put into it .
4 It now requires all Crown scheme participants to display charges beside telephones .
5 Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ .
6 And do it now .
7 ‘ Let's arrange it now .
8 Are you wanting to take any of it now ? ’
9 It now looks very well in a 15in pot , staked against wind damage and regularly fed , and in its first year yielded a crop of more than 3lb of berries .
10 Aw , shit , momma ! she protested , you 've done it now .
11 You 've done it now , she thought , numbing herself against Lucy 's inevitable knowing look and dismissive laugh .
12 Well , let's hear it now , said the woman .
13 ‘ His factor will be feeling it now , for letting us through the gates . ’
14 I think we have it now .
15 But if you are truly resolved , then pledge it now , swear an oath — come on — let us see all hands raised — come on now — every hand high …
16 Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber .
17 ‘ Take it now , Father , ’ said Mary , putting down her baskets and easing her shoulders .
18 We are deep into it now , and there is no avoiding it .
19 Should she mention it now ?
20 So where was it now ?
21 I suppose I have had three or four cracks at it now at different times of my life and in different circumstances and every time I have got it wrong .
22 If the orientation of the writing on the disc is unimportant ( in the centre of a bowl , for instance ) you can engrave it now , before fitting .
23 However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market .
24 Given its success after only eighteen months , and the current plans to extend the Thameslink network , it now seems hard to believe that passengers have enjoyed the ability to cross London by regular electric BR services for such a short time .
25 In thoroughly systematised form it now applies throughout the USSR .
26 What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day .
27 By the late 1850s the Brick Lane brewery was selling 400,000 barrels of beer a year , a quarter of it now ale rather than porter .
28 If you want to be a part of Top Dog '91 , fill in the entry form opposite — and do it now .
29 But Thomson has rejected the IEE 's offers and it now looks certain that the anniversary will be missed .
30 If that was true , then , how much more true is it now , given the vast changes in education , society , and culture that have ensued since 1929 ?
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