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Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [not/n't] now " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares …
2	Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me .
3	I do not now allude to preference though of course that comes first .
4	I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them .
5	I do not now deny that I hoped he would lead us to him .
6	Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead .
7	We 've done it for years , even won the FA Cup , but I do n't now how long I can go on .
8	I do n't now what he 's done to it .
9	Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days ,
10	I do n't now .
11	but I do n't now .
12	I do n't now how ever long it was .
13	I do n't now
14	As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth .
15	Surely you do n't now contend that your race and mine have also a common ancestor ? ’
16	You know you used to have a choice of jobs but you do n't now .
17	Those of you who know York will perhaps remember that you used to have to duck if you were any height at all to get underneath there , well you do n't now .
18	Make sure you do n't now ?
19	You do not now show your wife 's
20	‘ Then you do not now rule out the possibility of murder ? ’ she said .
21	She did n't now even have to worry about the size of the electricity bill , nor any other bills , come to that .
22	A spokesman said : ‘ All the injured were taken to Frimley Park Hospital for treatment but we do n't now how seriously hurt they were . ’
23	We do n't now go on the Saga holidays , simply because they er or solely because you need to go down to Gatwick to catch the planes and we 're not to doing that East Midlands or .
24	Can I just comment I think on the process , what happens is , is that in fact the application is made by the director of property services , we do n't now have a first resolution or a second resolution .
25	If we do not now , and voluntarily , give :
26	It remains true , however , that we do not now have the means to deploy this approach wholeheartedly , so that anyone who insists on its universal applicability must be taken , at least for the moment , to be committing an act of faith .
27	Whatever understanding of societies we gain in future , we do not now have a theory of ideology capable of explaining the myriad ways in which individuals perceive their situations , nor a theory of the social determination of character that will account for the vicissitudes of history .
28	Having taken pains in Part II to point out that there are a number of non-legal sources of advice and assistance , we do not now wish to give the impression that the negotiation of settlements is exclusively the province of lawyers .
29	Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line .
30	See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now .