Example sentences of "[pers pn] now [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now present three arguments to persuade you that it is indeed correct . |
| 2 | I now weigh 13 stone . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , I now had 120 people , 116 women and 4 men , who had followed the diet for a full eight-week period . |
| 4 | I now had two sets of parents . |
| 5 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 6 | To help I now had three rucsacs on my back . |
| 7 | I now weighed seven stone , the lowest figure I had yet attained . |
| 8 | Not only does this protect them from larger fish , it is easier to ensure they are being fed , since the powder food stays within the confines of the net and I now have 14 miniature mollies swimming free in the tank , all of which seem healthy , feeding on adult food . |
| 9 | I now have two : I use one for savoury dishes and one for sweet dishes . |
| 10 | I now have two males and three females , which give me one brood a week . |
| 11 | Since reading his three part series in Jan , Feb and March , 1990 on Nature Aquatics , I now have two lovely tanks . |
| 12 | I now have two things to look forward to . |
| 13 | I now have eight keepers who rotate so that each youngster becomes equally fond and knows them equally well . |
| 14 | Needless to say , I too was an avid reader of the magazine and there can be no doubt that my passionate interest in dogs ( I now have five ) was founded in those early Tailwagger days . |
| 15 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 16 | If I now have 2 dollars left , how much did 1 have to begin with ? |
| 17 | I now describe three games — the repeated prisoner 's dilemma , the queuing game , and the social contract game — which are played both by men and animals , but in which the strategies available to men are more extensive than those available to animals . |
| 18 | So you now control forty-six per cent , which is one per cent more than Miranda holds . |
| 19 | I understand that you now own two thirds of it ? ’ |
| 20 | You now have one of the curves mentioned above — which one depends on your angle of cut . |
| 21 | There are not many guarantees I can make in this game , but one thing I can assure you of is that you now have 1,000 shares in. |
| 22 | You now have twenty seconds |
| 23 | To be sure , she now had two sisters in Glasgow , Sophie and Mary . |
| 24 | She now had three of that lady 's outfits in the wardrobe and there had not yet been an occasion on which she could wear one of them : the last one had been a winter coat sporting a large fur collar , and the previous one , as Miss Belle called it , an afternoon tea gown . |
| 25 | The trip home must have been hazardous for Mars alone had suffered 72 hits , leaving 29 of her complement dead and 85 wounded , and she now had three feet [ 0.9 m ] of water in her hold . |
| 26 | She now works six hours a day as a domestic worker — a job which in itself has few rewards . |
| 27 | We now serve 70,000 school meals daily , making us one of the largest providers of educational catering in the country . |
| 28 | We now had two new questions : |
| 29 | Note 2.6.9 We now see one advantage of placing the function symbol to the right of the element it operates on , namely that the combined effect of f followed by g is naturally denoted by |
| 30 | ‘ The Wedgwood share of this market is increasing — we now command 40 per cent of the formal tableware bridal market and we are continuing to offer exciting bridal promotions to help support our leading position , ’ added Paul . |