Example sentences of "[conj] now [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same Army Medical Corps man as the day before , except now he looked positively haggard . |
| 2 | She 'd taken him literally , although now she questioned whether that had been wise . |
| 3 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 4 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 5 | But then it happened , the incredible , miraculous luck that now she expected , since it happened so easily and often : the telephone rang in the next room . |
| 6 | I thought that now she belonged to me , she could not marry Fabien . ’ |
| 7 | With the years , it had seemed to get heavier , so that now she made only two excursions a week , mostly to the outskirts , making a point never to visit the same house more than twice a year . |
| 8 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 9 | But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes . |
| 10 | Folly watched in agony , praying that now she had found no card she would lose interest . |
| 11 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said hesitantly , wishing that now she had not commented on the book , for one did not talk about poetry with chance acquaintances . |
| 13 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 14 | But somehow , damn him , he was too quick for her ; somehow , with catlike reflexes , he had manoeuvred her around so that now he had hold of her arms and she felt herself falling backwards , and in a moment there she was in front of him , floundering in the stagnant , smelly water . |
| 15 | The Defence Secretary also said that now he had been in the post a year , he was reviewing defence spending priorities to see if they were correct . |
| 16 | He said that now he 'd 'scaped Mah Hooks |
| 17 | Except that now he 'd stolen the cup Crazy Jake , their father , had given her . |
| 18 | And now we 'd better go , I think , because time 's getting on and we 've still tons of packing to do . |
| 19 | There was the Globe , and now we had the Blackfriars theatre . |
| 20 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 21 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 22 | Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place . |
| 23 | In the here and now we stopped without incident at White River . |
| 24 | Wexford certainly was n't going to embark on a sabbath day 's journey to Sewingbury , and now they had mucked up the Kingsbrook Road with those flats , there was no longer any point in going there . |
| 25 | And now they had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes . |
| 26 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 27 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 28 | And now they had a baby daughter . |
| 29 | They had resumed their walk as they talked , and now they had reached the village . |
| 30 | And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country . |