Example sentences of "now she [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So now she asked if the young gentleman could come in .
2 It had been a sentimental gesture on her part to keep it ; now she asked herself what was the point ?
3 Not exactly , and she did n't want to know , not everything , but now she asked tentatively , trying to match Sue 's brisk tone of voice : " What 's all this about the Christmas dance , then ?
4 Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice .
5 Now she asked herself would the same thing happen again if she surrendered ?
6 And now she seemed to be planning a new use for those skills as I watched her gaze , fixed on Boy , or shifting from O to Boy .
7 She had disdained the smaller waves in the shelter of the islands , but now she seemed to tremble as her hull soaked up the ponderous force of the ocean .
8 He remembered a time when Jane had feared a duel as much as he , but now she seemed more eager to protect her money than Lord John 's life .
9 Now she gestured to him to follow her .
10 All she knew of self and love she knew through Fenna , and now she had to send him away .
11 The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat .
12 Normally she was not inquisitive , but now she had Christopher greatly on her mind , and felt the need for parallel examples .
13 Dot had been away and now she had come back .
14 Now she had to belong here too .
15 Her temper had worsened since the pups were born , so now she had to be kept tied up all the time in the alcove near the kitchen stove .
16 The skill and habit of a lifetime refused to desert her altogether now she had no need of it and Alida Thorne still made her own dresses .
17 But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes .
18 Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment :
19 Now she had to think how to survive , that was what it came to .
20 Now she had to let her husband know , oh-so-artlessly , that she had set a guard on Marion that he could n't break without scandal .
21 Now she had both men in her room upstairs ; she had them standing naked before her .
22 And now she had one bony hand extended towards Charles at the top of the table and in it was her dinner fork with a piece of meat still speared on it .
23 By now she had the look of a refugee , a displaced person .
24 Paula smiled , all sunshine now she had her own way , and treated her mother to a hug that was enthusiastic yet somehow oddly impersonal .
25 She was also dimly aware that they had passed the point of no return — now she had allowed him inside her it seemed wrong to yell at him to stop or begin fighting him .
26 Winnie flat on her back and a crick in her neck now she had to turn it , for air , peeking out from under .
27 Now she had turned .
28 She had the ability and now she had had the break .
29 Another time she would have followed him out of curiosity , but now she had only one thing in mind .
30 Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling .
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