Example sentences of "[pers pn] now [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 8 | I now put that information as a leading question . |
| 9 | I now introduce another of Axelrod 's evocative technical terms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | I told him I now knew many things I did n't know before . |
| 13 | I now know that was wrong . ’ |
| 14 | Journalistically , I now had more status in the little Gazette office . |
| 15 | I now realise this would have been a mistake . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You see , I now handle all international affairs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I now have that , and I am really enjoying it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I now have some idea of what it 's about . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Having completed your downwind leg , you now make another turn to bring the model back into wind . |
| 27 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Put the side levers to O , conveying the message that you now want all the stitches to knit . |
| 30 | Are you now saying that 's no longer necessary ? |