Example sentences of "did now " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did now at least know roughly what was in them . |
| 2 | When they 'd gone Dee-Dee came in , as she often did now , to drink coffee over the sorted clippings . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know if you saved my life earlier , but you certainly did now . |
| 4 | But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’ |
| 5 | That 's what I did now . |
| 6 | He never thought that he would ever come to love the rain , but he did now . |
| 7 | So that 's what Moss did now . |
| 8 | NB : everyone who did NOW VOTES TORY ! ! ! |
| 9 | Until this exchange the violent turn in Chant 's eye had never unsettled Estabrook , but it did now , preventing him as it did from meeting the other man 's gaze directly . |
| 10 | It was many years since the assassin 's eyes had taken the pleasure they did now , seeing him . |
| 11 | It 's only magic , she thought , remembering Fand 's words ; but that was hard to believe , and no comfort anyway , knowing as she did now what magic could do . |
| 12 | The last danger seemed very real because French critics of EDC did now argue that German rearmament should be abandoned so that détente could succeed . |
| 13 | But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all . |
| 14 | Mrs Redmond called to see Julia one afternoon as she sometimes did now and Julia told her of the conversation about mourning . |
| 15 | He grinned at her engagingly , and she thought how very attractive he was , particularly when he looked as he did now ; happy and smiling . |
| 16 | I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else . |
| 17 | Reluctantly , and stressing this was only his " personal " opinion , nothing to do with the British government , the British ambassador replied that a crackdown could n't work , that is the Shah was now forced to withdraw to a naval base , he would soon have to leave altogether anyway , but that if he did now leave Iran , the chances of his coming back were slight . |
| 18 | She could n't face him , feeling the way she did now . |
| 19 | Oh yes , there were no er there was no er no nonsense , I mean you would n't dare answer the teacher back like they did now and call them by their christian names . |
| 20 | In the pre-Marcus days she 'd seemed to have greater control over every aspect of her nervous system than she did now . |
| 21 | The prince , at a loss with the complexities of women , was quick enough to pick up an offered lead , and not infrequently bettered the prompting , as he did now . |
| 22 | She tried to sound pleased , casual , anything except embarrassed and as miserable as she did now . |
| 23 | She 'd always felt contentment then , just as she did now . |
| 24 | A dress I , I sent off for two sizes , I 'm glad I did now because I thought you know that the small one would be okay for them , but it 's not , there 's the hat |
| 25 | Is , is that the one I did now you do surprise me . |
| 26 | and that moves that along I ca n't remember what I did now , to get it Aha ! |
| 27 | the way I did now . |
| 28 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |