Example sentences of "now [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I have finally begun , he wrote , I have only to go on and the end will arrive . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | In fact , he wrote , I suspect that I will produce a better edition , one more worthy of its subject , now I have had time to mull over its implications and to watch the blossoming of your reputation . |
| 4 | By now I have already committed myself to so much , he wrote . |
| 5 | But now I have started it , am well on with it , this is it , this is me , no avoiding the fact . |
| 6 | Now I have definitively abandoned it I begin to wonder . |
| 7 | Well , I did and did n't get and now I have all these things . |
| 8 | Happily Lendl 's humour resurfaced when he was asked what difference marriage had made : ‘ Before I could do everything I wanted to do , now I have to ask . ’ |
| 9 | Now I have another week to get my fitness up to the right level . ’ |
| 10 | Now I have a dire suspicion that pink fir apples are being kept down artificially , that a cartel is operating . |
| 11 | Now I have found out why . |
| 12 | Now I have nothing , I am free . ’ |
| 13 | Up until now I have been fascinated by the sound of a bomb leaving the barrel ; this evening and the closeness to the enemy mortar had changed all that . |
| 14 | ‘ That was a garden for your mother , now I have one for you . ’ |
| 15 | We moved in closer to the stream and , attracted by something ( though now I have no idea what ) I went to the stream edge . |
| 16 | Now I have a girl who comes from — Indonesia ? |
| 17 | Now I have begun to understand , bad pay , rotten conditions and this insufferable contempt shown to us , it is a part of the same picture . |
| 18 | And now I have a good job , one I like . |
| 19 | Now I have changed my mind : Small convinced me that in his case there was no alternative . |
| 20 | And now I have a terrible thing to tell you . |
| 21 | As a child of 16 , I was supposed to have some gift of description ; now I have not a particle of descriptive power … . |
| 22 | Now I have money , I ca n't eat ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Now I have a suggestion to make . |
| 24 | ‘ I am too small for all the steadfast love ’ ( that is a literal translation of the Hebrew , which is much more striking than our English versions ) ‘ and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant , for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan ; and now I have become two companies . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I knew it and now I have remembered . |
| 26 | You were not listening and now I have forgotten . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Now I have made you some tea , ’ Dorothea said , coming into the room . |
| 28 | Now I have a salaried job instead of running the home I have no time to do the shopping , take the car to the garage or wait in for service engineers of various sorts . |
| 29 | Now I have my own friends and we never really talk about it . |
| 30 | But now I have something to write about … |