Example sentences of "now that they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that they knew he would be leaving , the literary confraternity had already started to turn their backs on him , and had begun to scan the possible replacements in the current British intellectual mafia . |
| 2 | What was Britain going to do about its colonial subjects now that they laid claim to ‘ Britishness ’ ? |
| 3 | Now that they threaten themselves , the farmers are pleading for action . |
| 4 | I said , she said it 's got an extra bedroom , Okay I can see that she 's got an extra bedroom and they can perhaps do with one now that they got a boy , but , I said , you know , do n't , what have you got what you 've got , you know at the minute |
| 5 | Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy . |
| 6 | We must assume now that they know about our plan to attack Bremen , but not when or where we will strike . |
| 7 | Now that they know about the money , there is always a possibility that they 'll tell the Germans . |
| 8 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 9 | ‘ You see , now that they 've got your wife and daughter they have , as I said , changed the rules . ’ |
| 10 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 11 | Aesthetically it 's a dead loss now that they 've tried to modernize everything . |
| 12 | And then you 've got to include St Anton have n't you , now that they 've solved the puking Swede problem . |
| 13 | They , they think now that they 've got a feeling that this might be taken out , all these testing schemes and stuff because I said to them , While their argument is that while she 's doing these SAT schemes , and she 's following this , she 's all worked up , |
| 14 | On the acquisition front we retained David , Barry and all the staff at Argyll Services on board in September and now that they 've got used to our paperwork they 'll be looking forward to showing us what they can do in 1993 . |
| 15 | Now that they 've split into two parts , erm , I do n't know which one that belongs to . |
| 16 | Now that they 've gone back to school she has a bit of a job with the I 've got ta go you know , I said we 'll have so many people round talking you know she said he 'd got a terrible ! |
| 17 | I felt safer now that they 'd arrived and I was curious to see what she meant by ‘ laying out ’ . |
| 18 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 19 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
| 20 | Now that they gone independent , we 've got to again look and see what are our roles there . |
| 21 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 24 | Now that they had n't Baby to visit any more , all that was bound to start again . |
| 25 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 26 | However , now that they had family responsibilities and were beginning to put down roots , they returned to their former church-going . |
| 27 | Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking . |
| 28 | Throughout the autumn , NAM had entered into negotiations with three national aviation collections relating to the potential loan of aircraft now that they had a display hangar of more than ‘ professional ’ standing . |
| 29 | Now that they had emerged , they did not continue headlong towards the Scouts . |
| 30 | 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 . |