Example sentences of "now i [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I had a good view of the countryside . |
| 2 | Now I had a new mission in life — to ensure that every tinker caravan in Ireland contained a picture of a donkey dancing while a devil played the fiddle . |
| 3 | By now I had a long list of prospective release sites and sound experience behind me , so things went pretty much according to plan . |
| 4 | Now I had a right job with them . |
| 5 | I had a flimsy recollection of being afraid of getting drowned ; now I had a flimsy suspicion that I might be buried under snow and never rise again to the surface . |
| 6 | Toby had never offered to read me any of his work ; but now I had a sudden longing to know whether or not he could really write I turned the page over . |
| 7 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 8 | Now I saw a beautiful woman who always wore a hat because she had lost her hair . |
| 9 | The mind does not expect a swallow until after a chew so now I chew a small piece of biscuit and then pop in the Paracetamol and swallow without difficulty . |
| 10 | And now I have a good job , one I like . |
| 11 | Now I have a new version of the 4th Movement to make a comparison … |
| 12 | Now I have a salaried job instead of running the home I have no time to do the shopping , take the car to the garage or wait in for service engineers of various sorts . |
| 13 | And now I have a terrible thing to tell you . |
| 14 | Now I have a dire suspicion that pink fir apples are being kept down artificially , that a cartel is operating . |
| 15 | There are plans to make for tomorrow , but for now I want a dreamless sleep . |
| 16 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 17 | Travelling to the Continent now I feel a gloomy foreboding , for there is a whiff of decline in the air . |
| 18 | I used to miss my mother and father dreadfully when I was younger , and now I feel a certain amount of guilt that I need them so little , think of them so seldom . |
| 19 | So you 're building up now I think a good understanding of the er terminology |
| 20 | Now I think a little lie-down perhaps would be rather lovely . " |
| 21 | Now I needed a little sail from the ship , and then I was ready . |