Example sentences of "[pers pn] now had a [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even her father , for whose gardening abilities she now had a deep respect , did not deviate from the norm . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She now had a permanent pain in her chest which she knew quite clearly was related to her inability to cry . |
| 10 | Helpfully , I remarked that at least we now had a Prime Minister who liked football . |
| 11 | But they now had a great advantage because they knew that their viral DNA was in the gene and so they could use this knowledge to fish out the gene that clearly plays some role in limb development . |
| 12 | They now had a wide circle of acquaintances , mutual or individual , many prominent as writers , feminists , and socialists . |
| 13 | Virgin Records was no longer the small , struggling outsider with only a handful of artists , but an established and thriving company , vying competitively with the likes of Island and Chrysalis — and , what 's more , they now had a newly-established office in America . |
| 14 | This showed Albert 's sensitive side to her which brought them close together , they now had a shared loyalty , towards Shug . |
| 15 | He now had a young man 's moustache and beard . |
| 16 | He now had a whole-time chaplain . |
| 17 | In spite of the fact that he had let her down badly and most devastating of all , even though he now had a new love — Beth still pined for him . |
| 18 | At any rate , he now had a little breathing space . |
| 19 | For him , a heavy smoker , this was manna sent from heaven : he now had a large supply to keep him going . |
| 20 | President Carlos Saúl Menem , whose popularity had waned in July due to financial scandals involving his relatives and political aides [ see p. 38335 ] , stated that he now had a national mandate to seek the widest political consensus to deepen the government 's economic programme . |
| 21 | But modern technology now makes perfect repair work possible , so Leonard came back even though he now had a lucrative television career and had astutely invested his fortune . |
| 22 | said he now had a clear understanding that International was a large professional organisation with a product range tested to the highest level . |
| 23 | He now had a fair copy and could slip the letters back unremarked into the London Library Vico . |