Example sentences of "[pers pn] now had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , I now had 120 people , 116 women and 4 men , who had followed the diet for a full eight-week period . |
| 2 | I now had two sets of parents . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | Journalistically , I now had more status in the little Gazette office . |
| 5 | To help I now had three rucsacs on my back . |
| 6 | To be sure , she now had two sisters in Glasgow , Sophie and Mary . |
| 7 | I also checked her urine for sugar as she now had vaginal thrush although this was probably due to the antibiotics . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We now had two new questions : |
| 11 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 12 | Although Beckenham U.D.C. had powers to construct a tramway system , which they might have leased to the B.E.T. , and had built a power station in Churchfields Road , they now had second thoughts about tramways and were thinking in terms of permitting the B.E.T . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He now had all the older boys working for him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wee Rory , he had said — he had shocked her with his knowledge of the name — was connected to the terror men , he now had concrete evidence . |
| 18 | Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her . |
| 19 | Gregson had called immediately and Houghton had explained about the fingerprints and how he was sure he now had positive identification of at least one of the bodies . |
| 20 | It now had 71 ( with 46.4 per cent of the vote ) , followed by the Socialist Party of Catalonia ( PSC ) , with 39 seats and 27.3 per cent ( compared with 42 and 29.7 per cent in 1988 ) . |