Example sentences of "[pers pn] now [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 2 | I told him I now knew many things I did n't know before . |
| 3 | Journalistically , I now had more status in the little Gazette office . |
| 4 | She now kept that strangeness private to herself — secret ; but sometimes something popped into a conversation before she could prevent it . |
| 5 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 6 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 7 | All the optimism of the summer had evaporated , and we now faced another winter and Christmas without our families in this cold hole in the ground . |
| 8 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 9 | The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him . |
| 10 | On the other hand , more of the owner-managed businesses said they now had more confidence in the direction of Government policy than the top 1,000 representatives . |
| 11 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 12 | Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity . |
| 13 | He now had all the older boys working for him . |
| 14 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 15 | Apart from predictable duties , like that of sitting through a performance of The Family Reunion ( a play for which he now had little affection ) , he was asked to crown the Swedish snow queen at the winter festival : he told Robert Giroux that he had hoped this might be combined with the Nobel ceremony itself , so that he could wear ice-skates with his tails . |
| 16 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 17 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 18 | I knew he now realized this was serious , but I was not sure I had got through to him how serious . |
| 19 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 20 | He now watched both men rise simultaneously to their feet , and it was James Holden who , turning to his partner , said almost in a whisper , ‘ Her … her allowance ? ’ |
| 21 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 22 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 23 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |