Example sentences of "but [pers pn] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I now get er er er , get an itemized bill from Telecom , so I 'll be able |
| 2 | But I now felt the time was coming to move on to another department . |
| 3 | For me it 's a first but I now hope to breed some more . |
| 4 | I was raised in Britain where I took my A-levels and went to university , but I now teach at an American college . |
| 5 | But I now saw other opportunities . |
| 6 | Dawn did once disappear for two days , but I now know where to look for her if she vanishes . |
| 7 | ‘ Father Reynard was a suspect but I now know he was busy riding to Woodstock . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're not there yet , of course , but I now detect a completely new enthusiasm , a new belief among the players , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I thought I would never believe it at one time , but I now accept , along with every other carp angler , that carp can differentiate — given time — between a bait that is no more than a tasty morsel of carbohydrate and one that consists mainly of ingredients with a high nutritive value |
| 10 | I had hoped that Scottish mountaineers , so proud of their heritage , would say , ‘ To hell with metres ’ , and remain loyal to the altitudes listed by Munro , but I now find , to my dismay , that the Scottish Mountaineering Club , the publishers of the Tables , in their most recent edition , have also succumbed to Europe and sacrificed a cherished independence by converting all heights to metres . |
| 11 | It is very difficult to cover all the possible eventualities in the forty-odd hours of the PPL course , but I now spend more time teaching emergencies connected with power reductions . |
| 12 | But I now understand the following verse . |
| 13 | The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department . |
| 14 | He says ; After the farewell tour I concentrated on acting and my future and I did not want to sing Dr Hook 's songs but I now understand people will want me too . |
| 15 | But I now need to make the point ( among others ) that it is the details that matter . |
| 16 | ‘ People should not read too much into every statement , but I now need to know what everybody is thinking , and I will not discuss anything with the media until I have spoken to the necessary people . ’ |
| 17 | They achieved their main aim — debate — but I now examine whether their analysis was correct . |
| 18 | There was a copy in the library at one stage , although not listed under it was under , but I now see that when the other day I looked erm , according to er , there is n't even anything under . |
| 19 | But I now relish the challenge of rebuilding the club . ’ |
| 20 | But I now realise that I , too , have been a whore , now that I am in love . |
| 21 | I may be a little biased about this one , but I now consider it to be of a very high standard . |
| 22 | At the time I assumed she was thinking of Dennis , but I now wonder if she had a premonition of her own fate . |
| 23 | That 's fine , but you now know this will happen , and you know how to do it — just by carrying on with this Inch Loss Plan diet and the Maintenance Exercise Programme which will have the effect of continually improving your shape . |
| 24 | There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication . |
| 25 | He said yes but you now have your health centre and the district nurses work from there . |
| 26 | Mrs Cole-King has already caused a stir by suggesting she had no objection to the idea of women holding communion in private homes , but she now says she realises that is n't a good idea and it certainly wo n't be something she 'll be campaigning for . |
| 27 | But she now takes up music rather late in her education . |
| 28 | Caterina had not really understood the argument ; but she now reconstituted her father 's impassioned argument for contracts . |
| 29 | but she now do n't , definitely do n't |
| 30 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |