Example sentences of "what she now " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 2 | Yet she also knew that if she had succumbed to her longing she would not have been satisfied , knowing what she now knew of the terrible difficulties of love . |
| 3 | In order to earn her keep Diana joined the ranks of what she now dismissively refers to as the ‘ velvet hairband ’ brigade , the upper-class ladies who fit a loose template of values , fashions , breeding and attitudes and are commonly known as ‘ Sloane Rangers ’ . |
| 4 | Sebastian seemed as cheerful as ever , but what she now saw as the unthinking , meaningless nature of his good nature irritated her almost beyond bearing . |
| 5 | Dana 's voice came back to her with its underlying excitement and what she now realised was fear . |
| 6 | Well , she had shrugged her shoulders metaphorically at that , and oh , how she wished that she had heeded him , instead of going on what she now saw clearly had been her wilful way . |
| 7 | ‘ You must listen to this , ’ said Hugo , and Valerie , out of simple love , stopped writing and listened , though Lover at the Gate was in mid-flow and she did not want her concentration spoiled : what she now put on the page was beginning to have the quality of automatic writing : she feared the cutting-in of her own rationality : doubt would come with it , and hesitation . |
| 8 | Marjorie had only told her what she had really always known — or , rather , what she now felt she had always known and hypocritically ignored . |
| 9 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 10 | The solution was to bring what she now calls ‘ some false bravado into play ’ , to answer him back , giving the impression of a strength and security she really did n't feel . |