Example sentences of "now [pers pn] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I saw a beautiful woman who always wore a hat because she had lost her hair . |
| 2 | I had never thought about my father , about meeting him , not knowing , and something like this happening , and now I saw it was possible , the desire to laugh became a fearful compulsion . |
| 3 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
| 4 | You paint a picture like that Mars now I saw you do one time , empty with loneliness . |
| 5 | Now I saw starkly , for the first time , the villainy and the sheer horror of Frankenstein 's researches . |
| 6 | But now I see , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that I must alter the emphasis of the first part . |
| 7 | Now I see , he wrote , that I must abandon it as I have abandoned everything else . |
| 8 | I always thought it was too early , he wrote , and now I see that it is much too late . |
| 9 | Even now I see Khrushchev 's face in tears . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , now I see ! ’ |
| 11 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 12 | Listen , I go to places where once there were thousands of alpacas ; now I see hundreds of cows and sheep . |
| 13 | Now I see the spider as a fisherman waiting near his nets at the side of the streams of the air . |
| 14 | But now I see , from a recent incident , that people are not ill any more . |
| 15 | A man of ever-changing whims , and now I see you 're freed from your fearful collar , Midnight , you 'd do better to sign on . |
| 16 | Now I see why , ’ he said bitterly . |
| 17 | Now I see the hat has appeared in the lot of Maxwellian headgear purchased by the Sun for their mischief-making . |
| 18 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Now I see her as a potential suicide — the ultimate protest . |
| 20 | It makes sense to say , ‘ Ah , now I see what metals have in common with ’ ; but it makes no sense to say , ‘ Ah , now I see what things that look white have in common with ’ . |
| 21 | It makes sense to say , ‘ Ah , now I see what metals have in common with ’ ; but it makes no sense to say , ‘ Ah , now I see what things that look white have in common with ’ . |
| 22 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 23 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 24 | She was younger than me and now I see how anxious she was to be what I wanted her to be . |
| 25 | Now I see it 's all about power . |
| 26 | Now I see the pattern of our nourishment laid down like our usefulness , by an old set of rules . |
| 27 | Now I see that it was — marginal . |
| 28 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
| 29 | ‘ Now I see : you want a row . |
| 30 | But now I see I was wrong . |