Example sentences of "now he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had already taken two aspirins about half an hour before and now he took four more . |
| 2 | Now he took a deep breath and forced himself to keep calm . |
| 3 | The little boy had been momentarily subdued in Vitor 's arms , but now he took a breath . |
| 4 | Yet even now he took his time to stroke and caress her until she was drugged and dazed with longing . |
| 5 | now he took it very bad like as much as Margaret |
| 6 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 7 | If Leonard appeared in his first book to invite comparisons , now he made statements , claims , and most of all , confessions . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's probably realised now he made a mistake , ’ said Rush . |
| 9 | Now he made the most of the proffered opportunities , even putting the notion of a third book to the back of his mind meantime . |
| 10 | By now he made his living as a schoolmaster , in Loose and Maidstone . |
| 11 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 12 | Now he made no attempt to banish his feelings from his face . |
| 13 | But now he made no comment . |
| 14 | Which was one of the many reasons , now he thought about it , why he was planning to kill her . |
| 15 | But now he thought about it , weighing up different locations in the house as possible strangling areas , there was a definite pattern to her movements . |
| 16 | Not only had he spotted excessive muscular tension throughout his body , but now he thought he knew how to correct it . |
| 17 | And , now he thought about it , he was glad . |
| 18 | The same thing took place at St John 's Wood and now he thought he knew who and what they were . |
| 19 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 20 | [ Dombey and Son , Ch 16 ] The artlessness of the child 's mind is reflected partly in the repetitions " watching it and watching everything " and " deepen , deepen , deepen " ; in the use of common words , especially those with monosyllabic stems : " he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps " , " and now he thought how black it was " ; and in the way the cohesion of the passage rests on the subject pronoun he and the conjunction and . |
| 21 | Now he thought fit to put in a word . |
| 22 | That seemed logical , but now he thought about it he was n't sure that that was n't the way to remember the way it was n't , not the way it was . |
| 23 | Now he thought about it , she had not been here yesterday either ; small chance she would be here tomorrow then , she was avoiding him . |
| 24 | Now he thought he knew the sort of case he had to deal with , and what he had read had pointed which way to look for the killer . |
| 25 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 26 | At first he thought an adult must have caused them but now he thought she could have been dropped by a child . |
| 27 | Now he thought about it , Ted Mosse had n't been much of a talker . |
| 28 | And no doubt now he expected her to be suitably softened up by her two days ' grieving , ready to fall back into his arms on the strength of one calculated gesture . |
| 29 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 30 | Now he knew what they meant in books when characters were described as being ‘ frozen to the spot ’ . |