Example sentences of "[pers pn] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they wo n't 'ave ter pay 'er what they owe 'er now she 's dead , will they ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Could n't get ‘ em now , ’ says the farmer 's wife scornfully . |
| 3 | But I am yours now , are n't I ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 's all yours now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All that I command is yours now . |
| 6 | Wycliffe said : ‘ It 's all yours now . ’ |
| 7 | transferring ownership : " It 's yours now . |
| 8 | Yes , it 's yours now . |
| 9 | Will it be yours now when you , when you take it in do you take that out do n't you ? |
| 10 | Have you finished yours now ? |
| 11 | Yeah , but it 's not the same as yours now . |
| 12 | Oh for fuck sake I 've got to swap one of mine for one of yours now |
| 13 | Those coke ones are yours now , they 're not , they are ones we do n't do without . |
| 14 | And if you like to check yours now just okay . |
| 15 | Like sunnink reely glamorous that everyone wants an' I ca n't see woss so wrong wiv vat. 'Cos I ai n't gonner get no kitchen wiv pitcher winders an' some geezer wiv a pipe like you was on abaht am I now ? |
| 16 | Even in the plan , though , I now realize , he wrote , there was a certain vagueness about the right hand side of both panels . |
| 17 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 18 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 19 | From being a peripheral figure for most of my working life , I now had to adjust to being on centre stage . |
| 20 | I now had to start thinking about things like that . |
| 21 | I now needed to make some sort of a decision . |
| 22 | In consequence , according to the rule book , I now had to be taken seriously . |
| 23 | I now see that between 1958 and 1977 I was involved in what might well be described as a social drama of movement , often crossing boundaries into very marginal areas of policing , where the institutional ideal of ordered definition fails simply because the ‘ use of power and exercise of authority are based in ambiguity and particular interpretations of [ what is often ] poorly framed legislation ’ ( Burton 1980 ) . |
| 24 | I can say that because I now belong to them both . |
| 25 | What I now want to suggest is that there is a lot of very successful science currently being conducted which literally depends on functionalism being true . |
| 26 | I now turn to a consideration of some implications of the cognitive neuropsychology of face recognition for phenomenology — an approach to the mind and mental phenomena that gives prominence to introspectible ‘ phenomena ’ understood as acts of consciousness and their immediate objects . |
| 27 | To Marmeladov , Raskolnikov , and the underground man , I now add Svidrigailov , because the chief enormity which is being confessed , or merely admitted to , or flaunted , or feigned , binds Stavrogin to the America-minded debauchee no less tightly than does the boredom theme of the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter . |
| 28 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The secret — which I now divulge — is that they are dead easy to grow . |
| 30 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |