Example sentences of "but now [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops .
2 Later she would agonise over all the might have beens , but now she had other things on her mind , things that would n't wait .
3 But now she denied that memory .
4 But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again .
5 But now I slept this morning on the settee .
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