Example sentences of "[pers pn] now [vb base] [det] " in BNC.

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1 [ in a frenzy of remorse ] O , how heartily I now despise all my former pursuits and headstrong appetites .
2 I now perceive many advantages in our present complex system of representation , which formerly eluded my observation ’ Letter to James Losh , 1821 .
3 You have presented me with the key , and I now perceive all of its hitherto latent beauties . ’
4 You see if I now pack those clubs like that you 've got an ace of clubs , yeah , so sometimes when there 's a deal coming off you might draw
5 I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll have a joint farewell party I Now take that look off your faces , Mr Misery and Miss Gloom , and go and collect the eggs for me , will you ?
6 I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision .
7 I now put that information as a leading question .
8 I now introduce another of Axelrod 's evocative technical terms .
9 I now keep all appliance handbooks and registration cards filed away so that I can diagnose faults in , say , the food mixer , without incurring expensive servicing .
10 ‘ What we have to do , ’ said Samuel , taking advantage of her exit from the ring , ‘ and I take it no one objects if I now chair this committee , ’ he added off-handedly , ‘ is to decide whether the Week of the Lion should continue or be cancelled . ’
11 I now know that was wrong . ’
12 I now realise this would have been a mistake .
13 As a mother of adolescents myself , I now find this combination of intolerance and inaction extraordinary , although it would seem to confirm Selvini Palazzoli 's point that the parents in anorexics ' families are both unwilling to assume leadership .
14 You see , I now handle all international affairs .
15 My childhood was the place where , for my mother , the fairy tales failed , and through the glass of that childhood I now see that failure as part of a longer and more enduring one .
16 With the wisdom of hindsight and the benefit of several years ' experience , I now see that analysis , particularly involving econometric models , shows that it brings a reduction in employment .
17 I found that I gained a lot of strength from all this regular correspondence with people and , four years on , I now feel much more myself again , although of course I still miss my husband tremendously .
18 It is very difficult to cover all the possible eventualities in the forty-odd hours of the PPL course , but I now spend more time teaching emergencies connected with power reductions .
19 I now have that , and I am really enjoying it .
20 In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database .
21 I now have some idea of what it 's about .
22 You now make all four Diamond tricks on dummy , but you only have one trick in Clubs , one in Hearts and two in Spades to go with them , making a mere eight tricks in total .
23 Having completed your downwind leg , you now make another turn to bring the model back into wind .
24 That 's fine , but you now know this will happen , and you know how to do it — just by carrying on with this Inch Loss Plan diet and the Maintenance Exercise Programme which will have the effect of continually improving your shape .
25 Put the side levers to O , conveying the message that you now want all the stitches to knit .
26 However , as you now have another set-up available for aerobatics the model can be made less sensitive .
27 You now have some physical work to do .
28 There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication .
29 You now have several options , so take a bit of time to think through what you really want to do — and get the best advice you can .
30 What we 're saying on the whole is that we , we are moving south erm militarily we , we now control most of north China , we begin to move on to the into areas of very high tenancy where landlordism was thought to be at its extreme but all we 're doing is reducing rents and interest rents .
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