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 . |