Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps we 'd better leave you now , Philippe , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd better leave you now , ’ she muttered over her shoulder . |
| 3 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 4 | If you want to be out on that pitch when the referee blows his whistle , you 'd better do it now . ’ |
| 5 | So you 'd best win it now , eh ? ’ |
| 6 | She did not want him now . |
| 7 | But I did not love him now . |
| 8 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 9 | Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful . |
| 10 | She had not liked it before , did not like it now , and the throng of tourists who had also disembarked , wearing baggy floral shorts , trussed with the straps of cameras and rucksacks , was irritating . |
| 11 | I had not believed her then , and I did not believe her now . |
| 12 | It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose . |
| 13 | But important as all this might once have been it did not concern her now . |
| 14 | He found that strong though they were , and better in the air , this pair of eagles did not frighten him now . |
| 15 | She did not know him now , did not recognise that steel thread of arrogant command . |
| 16 | Such matters do not concern us now . ’ |
| 17 | I did not know the answer then , and I do not know it now . |
| 18 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 19 | If we do not take it now , it will be gone forever . |
| 20 | Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark . |
| 21 | And I did n't tell you now to make , probably that . |
| 22 | His pay packet was there unopened and he did n't open it now but paid for his round from a wad of notes held together with an elastic band . |
| 23 | I did n't interrupt you now |
| 24 | He did n't hate it now . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't denigrate her now just to please me . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't suppose you now what that means at all do you ? |
| 27 | I used to do a lot for Joe but I do n't do them now . |
| 28 | They do n't do it now . ’ |
| 29 | And they do n't do it now . |
| 30 | It will then follow that the following are gestural usages , though the sense of gesture is here , of course , vocal : ( 28 ) Harvey can only speak about this loud ( 29 ) Do n't do it now , but NOW ! |