Example sentences of "[pers pn] now [vb past] [adj] " 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 | But I now saw other opportunities . |
| 3 | I now felt fresh , gay , attractive , and very , very feminine . |
| 4 | I told him I now knew many things I did n't know before . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I now had 120 people , 116 women and 4 men , who had followed the diet for a full eight-week period . |
| 6 | I now had two sets of parents . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | Journalistically , I now had more status in the little Gazette office . |
| 9 | To help I now had three rucsacs on my back . |
| 10 | I now weighed seven stone , the lowest figure I had yet attained . |
| 11 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 12 | She now kept that strangeness private to herself — secret ; but sometimes something popped into a conversation before she could prevent it . |
| 13 | In truth she now felt guilty for leaving the shuddering Elizabeth alone in the farmhouse . |
| 14 | Yet in some strange way the bird seemed to have affected the easy relationship that had previously existed between them and , in trying to analyse her own feelings , Lucy knew that she now felt shy and rather embarrassed . |
| 15 | She thanked him once again , saying she now felt better about going on the radio . |
| 16 | Where once she had felt secure she now felt alone . |
| 17 | To be sure , she now had two sisters in Glasgow , Sophie and Mary . |
| 18 | I also checked her urine for sugar as she now had vaginal thrush although this was probably due to the antibiotics . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She now painted multiple versions of each subject . |
| 23 | After her outburst , she now remained silent , darting odd looks of triumph at her betrayer . |
| 24 | We now passed great herds of cattle guarded by naked boys , and encountered frequent parties of mounted Arussi , all armed with spears . |
| 25 | We now had two new questions : |
| 26 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They now seemed enormous , with the swell surging up their black , shining sides . |
| 30 | These children felt let down by their parents , there was no emotional link and they now felt free of them . |