Example sentences of "now [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The body was Henry Clerval 's , and so now I had destroyed another person .
2 I wish now I 'd asked that question .
3 but you 've got to curb him of that , I said make matters I said Dan get yourself down here now I said did either of you kick Danny ?
4 Now you got fed this morning Patch .
5 It would be the end of all her high ambitions , and though the world would not greatly suffer thereby — for by now she had lost all confidence that anything she might say would alter the course of things — that crisis which was privately her own would remain for ever unresolved .
6 Now she had to let that night , her feelings , her certainties about his feelings , her inflamed stirrings of the senses — all be lapped away .
7 Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling .
8 Now she had to consider another person 's wishes at all times .
9 Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college .
10 Now we had to reverse all those brittle ice traverses with broken tools .
11 By now they had walked some distance along the Haymarket , and were on the edge of Piccadilly Circus where Dr Neil was relieved to see that Stair 's party had disappeared and the crowds there had grown less .
12 Now they sat avoiding each other 's eyes .
13 Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself .
14 By now he had lost another ship .
15 Now he wanted to promote this triple alliance : he told Attlee , ‘ The iron appears to me to be hot .
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