Example sentences of "[conj] he now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he now sat down and nursed his hangover . |
| 2 | The president of the society , ninety-five year old Mr T W Ventress , was unable to leave the Whitby nursing home where he now lives to visit the 1987 show which I attended . |
| 3 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 4 | Yet in casual conversation with the wife of a working colleague , Jean discovers that-Peter is just the same at the computer business where he now works as a systems manager . |
| 5 | Her eyes in the darkness found his and her dry hand clasped his leg , where he now stood beside her , preparing to leave . |
| 6 | He then worked at a Salmon Farm near Fort William before joining Douglas Reyburn , where he now concentrates on new developments and quality control . |
| 7 | Fluent in French and German , he added Italian during a two-year working spell in Italy and returned to Milan in 1982 , where he now looks after fibres . |
| 8 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 9 | Although he now lives far from the art and theatre world of London on which he thrived for so long , Milligan would not want more arts in the countryside . |
| 10 | Although he now had the potential earning power of any major movie star , he nevertheless remained on unemployment benefit while waiting for his agent to find the right new vehicle for him . |
| 11 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 12 | But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries , he has never actually managed a hotel . |
| 13 | On the one hand , although he now thought that the Commonwealth was " little more than a figure of speech " , he acknowledged America 's continuing interest in a British presence in the Indian Ocean . |
| 14 | He made it plain that he now wants to forgive and forget Mr Prescott 's deputy leadership challenge to Roy Hattersley last year . |
| 15 | Afterwards the Cardinal accepted that he had not appreciated the strong feelings of Jews on this issue and that he now hoped to find out more about the Shoah ( the Hebrew word for the Holocaust ) . |
| 16 | NEIL KINNOCK yesterday declared himself fit to be Prime Minister , by claiming in an end-of-conference message that he now speaks for the British people . |
| 17 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 18 | Patiently , he explained that he now ran his own fledgling advertising agency . |
| 19 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 20 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 21 | More important , Mr Deng gave China a new revolutionary vision in the decade of reform from 1978 ; and , despite the fact that he now has no official position , he still holds the fate of China in his hands . |
| 22 | Confident in the knowledge that he now had the general support of most of the top brass to his world control plan , Mueller considered that he was now in a much stronger position to start pulling the rug out from under the Regional Area Managers . |
| 23 | In the same way that he now helped his wife to dress , and waited upon her all day long , Wilson sought out people to keep her company . |
| 24 | Leigh-Pemberton said yesterday that PR was a subject that ‘ quite interested ’ him at the time , but that he now has ‘ no particular views ’ . |
| 25 | Slicing pieces of the plastic sheeting covering the woodpile as extra waterproofing , he had taped his shotguns into the packages that he now carried slung over one shoulder . |
| 26 | Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her . |
| 27 | He added that he now felt more detached from his former girlfriend , and that he was already beginning to regard their relationship as belonging to the past . |
| 28 | Tony felt that one important factor had been the change in his father 's attitude so that he now seemed to understand how he felt . |
| 29 | But he says that he now has an Olivetti ‘ spelling disk ’ that holds 80 000 words and space For another 30 000 . |
| 30 | He did not like her visits ; not only had she viewed his bum , but his rolling tears , so that he now felt a sissy . |