Example sentences of "she now [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 2 | After this , Pakeezah 's brothers went to Pakistan while her younger sister emigrated to England : she now lived in Wembley where her husband worked in a biscuit factory making shortbread . |
| 3 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 4 | Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage , news of which she now shared with Taheb . |
| 5 | That she now belonged to the man lying with her . |
| 6 | Yet ’ — her voice became serious — ‘ I would n't want it to end anywhere else but here ’ — she now looked about her — ‘ with the hills behind me and the river at me feet , so to speak . ’ |
| 7 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
| 8 | She now looked at the child , saying , ‘ Was that your ma ? ’ |
| 9 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 10 | But the sound she now made in her throat brought both Aggie and Ben 's eyes on her , and as she turned and fled from the room and Ben made to go after her , Aggie 's voice halted him , saying firmly , ‘ Leave her be ! |
| 11 | She now grinned at him as she pushed him , only to cry at him under her breath as he lifted the teapot , ‘ Leave it ! |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , you need n't be polite ; in fact , I would say to you ’ — she now paused with her hands on the table and stared up at him — ‘ please do n't be polite . |
| 13 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 14 | Chantal had not said how she now felt about Philippe Chaumont , and he felt unable to ask . |
| 15 | She now leant across the counter and , poking her face down to the child 's , she said , ‘ No , I did n't Bobbie , because if I had you would n't have got half as much as is in that bag . |
| 16 | She now cooked with garlic , took an interest in wine and spoke of fricassees rather than fry-ups . |
| 17 | Yet she also knew that if she had succumbed to her longing she would not have been satisfied , knowing what she now knew of the terrible difficulties of love . |
| 18 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 19 | She 'd taken a shine to Tom Rudge whom she now knew to be an apprentice fitter , as was Cyril , his mate . |
| 20 | Lady Selvedge , she now realised to her surprise , was wearing low-heeled walking shoes , not really quite the thing with her elaborately draped velvet toque but eminently sensible . |
| 21 | She now came under the giant umbrella of the Royal Family and at last the palace was able to give her full protection . |
| 22 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
| 23 | The description of Sycorax 's magic circulated and of course grew in the telling : scarred by fire , she now played with the element , burning circles of flame round creatures she had demanded Ariel procure for her ; she watched their panic , as they spun in their prison of flames . |
| 24 | Sebastian seemed as cheerful as ever , but what she now saw as the unthinking , meaningless nature of his good nature irritated her almost beyond bearing . |
| 25 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 26 | But when you enter into them , she now saw in sorrow , the blueness evaporates . |
| 27 | The Mother Superior did n't need to check Aggie 's flow , she did it herself , saying , ‘ Well , this one here ’ — she now thumbed towards Millie — ‘ I 'd like to bet she 's read the Bible from beginnin' to end , an' many other books besides . |
| 28 | And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home . |
| 29 | ‘ You must listen to this , ’ said Hugo , and Valerie , out of simple love , stopped writing and listened , though Lover at the Gate was in mid-flow and she did not want her concentration spoiled : what she now put on the page was beginning to have the quality of automatic writing : she feared the cutting-in of her own rationality : doubt would come with it , and hesitation . |
| 30 | She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties ' version of casual wear ; but , of course , when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt , detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand . |