Example sentences of "[pers pn] now have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Once again , I was restless and unfulfilled , though I now had a successful business and was happily married .
2 I now had a settled crew and witnessed the steady improvement in the PFF methods , but very much trial and error as it was at the time , although in keeping with the Harris momentum .
3 He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like .
4 They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon .
5 ’ At the age of 21 I turned to prostitution to provide money for drugs as I now had a heavy addiction .
6 I now have a great deal of choice about everything I do , which is the great blessing of old age .
7 Pat and I now have a small group of wild-caught Yellow Swords from one of the new collecting sites .
8 Whether the men used me or not , I now have a better understanding of relationships and what I want from them .
9 I now have a regular exercise programme which I enjoy and I am a trim one-and-a-half stones lighter which makes all the difference to how I feel about myself " .
10 I now have a new sweater and a clean conscience !
11 But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ .
12 You now have a complete record of the super season in which Mansell became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels .
13 Remove the four bolts each side which bolt the backrest brackets to the body sides and you now have a two seater .
14 Craftsmen are experts in making barrels from the wood of trees , you have the use of barrels , except for storing the oil , you now have a large quantity of barrels available .
15 Fold the edges over 3/4 inch ( 2cm ) top and bottom , so that you now have a double thickness 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) wide with a clean folded edge top and bottom .
16 Even her father , for whose gardening abilities she now had a deep respect , did not deviate from the norm .
17 She now had a young designer friend who lent — Nigel sincerely hoped it was n't sold — her a wide variety of sixties and seventies gear of the cheaper kind .
18 She now had a permanent pain in her chest which she knew quite clearly was related to her inability to cry .
19 She now has a thriving business and is constantly in demand .
20 She now has a similar job in a related field .
21 She now has a eight month old son Joseph … but is still coping with the loss of Ankeret … with the help of Sands , the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society … a self help group of bereaved parents .
22 Helpfully , I remarked that at least we now had a Prime Minister who liked football .
23 Keegan said : ‘ We now have a clearer picture of where we are going and we want to get the squad down to a manageable size .
24 A Hampshire Police spokesman said today : ‘ We can confirm we are reinvestigating the circumstances leading to the death of Steven Jarvis and we now have a 15-year-old girl in custody helping us with our inquiries . ’
25 On a lighter note , if the ‘ body ’ got David Mellor into trouble , we now have a new Minister for Culture ( called National Heritage ) .
26 In the middle of the worst recession since the war we now have a new crop of party political broadcasts , and a fresh set of posters , both crafted with skill by the advertising industry 's finest , which have had an immediate effect .
27 ‘ But we now have a strong cash flow able to fund substantial development programmes , and decided it was time to tidy up the balance sheet . ’
28 In other words , we now have a certain expectation of the sort of courtesy and level of service which we can receive from our public servants and that is something we have not had in the past .
29 We now have a better idea how to control these animals , ’ says Dr Friedemann Koster , director of the Charles Darwin Research Station .
30 Although there was never any chance of rival armies fighting out last June — that was a fantasy nourished by pro-democracy propaganda and the American networks — there were considerable tensions of which we now have a better understanding .
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