Example sentences of "now [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was still no sign of the elusive owl , and now I had another quest , too . |
| 2 | Now you had three children within two and a half years . |
| 3 | Now she had marvellous hair . |
| 4 | Later she would agonise over all the might have beens , but now she had other things on her mind , things that would n't wait . |
| 5 | Now she had to-go home and start her own cooking and cleaning . |
| 6 | Now she had both men in her room upstairs ; she had them standing naked before her . |
| 7 | For some years now they had licensing agreements with some major U S companies to produce ‘ Laura Ashley ’ designs on sheets and other home furnishings . |
| 8 | Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on . |
| 9 | Medics presented glowing testimonies to successive government inquiries on the marvellous conversion worked by the acts ; where before the conduct of prostitutes was miserable in the extreme , now they had common decency and self-respect . |
| 10 | Now he had one peculiarity when he was a-ploughin' : he had to have his pipe going before he could start . |
| 11 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
| 12 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |