Example sentences of "now and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |
| 2 | They were all watching in fascination , hardly noticing , hardly understanding , that the abrupt wind from the south door had fallen into total stillness , and still , leaf by leaf now and slowly and deliberately , the leaves kept turning . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're there or thereabouts now and even though we might have lost by the odd goal , we 're still bubbling . |
| 4 | It runs out of steam every now and again but generally gets re-fired . ’ |
| 5 | every now and again but going nowhere . |
| 6 | An apple now and again but it |
| 7 | He looks right David Lawrence I must say and that was a very , very quick delivery and getting back to your other point , that slips coming forward going back , it 's just every now and again that it does n't come out right from David Lawrence , it goes down comparatively slowly , but when he does get it right , it really flies through to slips . |
| 8 | You can imagine the population of th , of a nearby town , every now and again they would come down and perhaps throw some food over in this man 's direction a loaf of bread , a , a a a a a a , a hunk of meat or , some other food every now and again so he would keep alive . |
| 9 | The Louts were a bunch of youths from another district who came to the club now and again and mildly disturbed the dances . |
| 10 | I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away . |
| 11 | Joe the Fish listened avidly to everything Michael said to him , nodding his head now and again and every so often muttering , ‘ Good … good . ’ |
| 12 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 13 | I ‘ ll stop by every now and again and listen at the door , just in case there 's any rough stuff . |
| 14 | They sailed overhead and swayed with the slightly erratic action of the cableway holding them , bumping into each other now and again and so producing the clinking noise just audible over the din . |
| 15 | Cranston snored gently like a child , muttering now and again and smacking his lips . |
| 16 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
| 17 | Saturday night at the Cauldhame Arms and there I stood as usual at the back of the packed , smoke-filled room at the rear of the hotel , a plastic pint glass in my hand full of lager , my legs braced slightly on the floor in front of me , my back against a wallpapered pillar , and Jamie the dwarf sitting on my shoulders , resting his pint of Heavy on my head now and again and engaging me in conversation . |
| 18 | Make a habit of the place and you 'll fall asleep but wander down there every now and again and you 'll find an edge most other Liverpool drinking streets lack . |
| 19 | I would never go out like what Tony was saying you know he does n't drink at all and like he 'd be in a pub maybe seven days a week but I would take a drink now and again and I might n't go into a pub once in a month maybe . |
| 20 | Sure enough , a sparkling line of firelight was twitching its way up the hill , the red gleam of flame shifting constantly in the slight breeze , and disappearing now and again as the marchers tracked up or down slopes in the road . |
| 21 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 22 | And we 'd knock out things like ‘ Slow Death ’ by The Flamin' Groovies — who also used to come in the shop now and again when they were in town . |
| 23 | ‘ No … now and again when we were bold , but like any house . ’ |
| 24 | But her grandfather was ‘ a very strict man ’ , and although she went to live with them ‘ just now and again when things went wrong at home ’ , this never lasted : a respectable mechanic and chapel man , the grandfather could never forgive his daughter 's errant ways . |
| 25 | Our perambulations were interrupted now and again when other young friends with babies , hove in sight and , being infectious , we had to wave from a distance and hurry away from each other . |
| 26 | But Paddy mentions her now and again when he 's writin' . |
| 27 | Just now and again when they do get , you know , just past you , you just have to say now look go or else I 'm going to call the police , and they go . |
| 28 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 29 | Reassure your language helper every now and then that you appreciate correction . |
| 30 | I pass by the house now and then but it does n't seem awfully real to me yet . |