Example sentences of "as she now " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe when Teddy was acting the goat in this house the Princess of Wales was carrying Queen Maud of Norway as she now is . ’ |
| 2 | such gifts as SHe now possessed must never again become the property of a place like Club Eleusis . |
| 3 | He then set up house with not only Mary but also Claire ( as she now styled herself ) . |
| 4 | Was it too as bereft as she now was ? |
| 5 | In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’ |
| 6 | She was herself , biologically , a peasant , but was rarely made to feel this to be an eccentricity as she now felt . |
| 7 | Jack Delano has recorded the little state as she once was , and as she now is |
| 8 | C'zinsit was far ahead , wheeling in wide circles which brought him every so often closer to Kiku as she now rode sedately towards the hills . |
| 9 | Amanda was seventeen , and everywhere carried with her a sketching book as she now carried her religious pamphlets . |
| 10 | Her love for Maman , with its consuming passion to please , belonged to the times before Maman had , as she now realized , so gallantly followed her love . |
| 11 | When she wrote home , as she now did regularly , she wrote believing herself to be very contented . |
| 12 | But of course , as she now remembered , Lady Selvedge had the reputation of being mean . |
| 13 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
| 14 | I also checked her urine for sugar as she now had vaginal thrush although this was probably due to the antibiotics . |
| 15 | Laura — Laura Stratton as she now was — was reasonably content with the new arrangements : she was less anxious about burglars , she was chauffeured to her twice-weekly consultations with the latest chiropodist , she forgot most of her worries about the upkeep of the household , and she still found herself able to indulge the twin passions of her life , smoking cigarettes and playing contract bridge — simultaneously , wherever possible . |
| 16 | In October Professor Johnson , as she now is , was elected an Honorary Fellow of the college . |
| 17 | Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling . |
| 18 | Some time in the darkest hours of the night she had been forced to admit to herself that she was deeply attracted to David Markham , just as she now knew he was to her , but recognising that did n't alter the fact that the situation was impossible . |
| 19 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 20 | Recalling Thatcher fortunes when they were at a low ebb , Baroness Castle of Blackburn , as she now is , reminds us that Margaret Thatcher was at one stage rated the most unpopular Prime Minister in history a tag now attached to John Major . |
| 21 | Mrs Sibylle Alexander ( as she now is ) turned out to be a tall and handsome woman in her late sixties . |
| 22 | Gabriel herself had not had a happy family life , but a merciful providence , as she now saw it , had orphaned her early . |