Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] now [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 2 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 3 | You see if I now pack those clubs like that you 've got an ace of clubs , yeah , so sometimes when there 's a deal coming off you might draw |
| 4 | ‘ What we have to do , ’ said Samuel , taking advantage of her exit from the ring , ‘ and I take it no one objects if I now chair this committee , ’ he added off-handedly , ‘ is to decide whether the Week of the Lion should continue or be cancelled . ’ |
| 5 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 6 | ‘ The only losers in this transaction are the larger regional banks , because they now have another competitor of significant size . |
| 7 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 8 | However , as you now have another set-up available for aerobatics the model can be made less sensitive . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I can well believe that when he now catches this distinctive smell when passing Indian or Pakistani restaurants a nausea returns to him — it is , so to speak , the cuisine of shame . |
| 11 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 12 | Though it now has few East European customers it has proved that with cheap , intermediate technology and a limitlessly flexible approach to business , it is possible to sell exchanges to Russian cities . |