Example sentences of "see now " in BNC.
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| 1 | She followed the contours of his hairline to the almost kiss curl that hung over one of his eyes , the eye she could see now staring intelligently at a group of men — Englishmen like himself — discussing the prospects of the English team . |
| 2 | I can see now a typical speech of Crossman 's from the back benches . |
| 3 | I could see now that they were Royal Marine Commandos , No. 46 Commando of 4th Commando Brigade . |
| 4 | But the best were his rose bushes , a type you do n't often see now . |
| 5 | Right , Moxon , Metcalfe , Carrick , good old Arnie of course … er , that stocky lad who does n't move his feet properly … um , let me see now : um , oh yes , that fellow who keeps getting backache , and then that off-breaker who ca n't turn it , and that so-called seamer with the funny hairstyle who just ca n't bowl at all … |
| 6 | Do n't you see now why the substitutionary atonement must not be forced , because it separates the Father from the work of the Son ? |
| 7 | I can see now that she is a blessing in red-booted disguise . |
| 8 | I could see now , in the better light , that a long mirror was on the wall directly over the bed . |
| 9 | He could see now that it was a distorted papier maché sculpture , luridly coloured in red . |
| 10 | They could see now that the front was concave . |
| 11 | You can see now how important your cooperation is on this adoption question ? |
| 12 | He could see now it was an immense refrigerated truck weighing God knew how many tons . |
| 13 | The 1960 were , as we can see now , in some ways rightly to be thought of as a time of indulgence . |
| 14 | I can see now he is extremely fond of you . |
| 15 | All he could see now was Billy 's bare behind doing an impression of a fiddler 's elbow . |
| 16 | I think I can see now , why you have put it in . |
| 17 | Do you not see now how we are being used ? |
| 18 | I can see that the interest in the past is because it was an era of good music and change , which I do n't really see now . |
| 19 | Last night the Foreign Office said : ‘ We can see now it would have been better if the advice had not been given . ’ |
| 20 | Superficially , I was coping , but I can see now that this period was a kind of moratorium . |
| 21 | At the time I ascribed my inability to an acute sense of boredom ( which , in part , it was ) , but I can see now that it was also a form of rebellion , this time an unconscious one . |
| 22 | Of course I can see now how infuriating this behaviour must have been . |
| 23 | But the orchestra is playing a medley from Fiddler on the Roof , the audience is clapping impatiently in time and , horror or horrors , I can see now there are no stairs — just a long slide circling down to the stage 60 feet away . |
| 24 | He could see now that she was placed in an almost similar position , for with Martin marrying , she was once more being cast adrift . |
| 25 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 26 | In the triangle I can see now this as apex , that as base — now this as apex , that as base . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah , well , I can see now , they 've made a pretty good job of it . |
| 28 | ‘ You can see now why this matter is so important . ’ |
| 29 | We can see now that ethnicity is an important source of variation in individual experience and no studies of family life can afford to ignore it . |
| 30 | Reformers were directing their energies , as we can see now , at many of the wrong targets , illustrating the typical nineteenth-century preference for moral campaigns rather than for structural social reforms . |