Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret — which I now divulge — is that they are dead easy to grow . |
| 2 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 3 | You have my soul now , all my thoughts are yours ; only a short time before you can have all of me , even my poor body which I now strive to make purer and better , healthier and stronger for that time . |
| 4 | If the DUP 's criticisms of ‘ gangsterism ’ have made it unpopular with some sections of the working-class Protestant population , its view on the sabbath and alcohol consumption have further widened the divisions and it is to this sort of issue which I now want to turn . |
| 5 | This close association of religion and politics has also given the organizational vehicle for the politics — the DUP — an unusual character which I now wish to explore by examining the tensions caused by the presence in a political agenda of religious attitudes . |
| 6 | My own section on the practicalities of prescribing now includes case histories and explains the even more simplified approach which I now adopt . |
| 7 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
| 8 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 9 | I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality . |
| 10 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 11 | We sat around his bed and he went into one of the formidable silences which I now accepted as the concomitant of wisdom . |
| 12 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 13 | The landing itself was fitted with two large , double-glazed skylights in the sloping ceiling , which I now realized were responsible for the light and feeling of airiness throughout the upper floors . |
| 14 | I told Sandy my favourite South African cricket story , which I now pass on . |
| 15 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 16 | They are matters to which I now turn . |
| 17 | Whether I am so satisfied is the third question , to which I now turn . |
| 18 | Far below in the glens , pinpoints of yellow light , growing in number as darkness fell , served to accentuate the loneliness of the scree slopes which I now traversed . |
| 19 | This raises the question of political practices and the transnational capitalist class , to which I now turn . |
| 20 | Marmite , heels , three shirts , half a pound of Plectra , and some product called Syntax , which I now envisage as being like a health-food called Bemax that my father used to sprinkle over his breakfast cereal . |
| 21 | Because in fact , it 's in the middle of some words , erm , but as , it 's at the beginning of a word , which I now ca n't find . |
| 22 | So , if you have done something in the past which you now regret and would do differently were the situation to repeat itself , you should be pleased that you have learned something vital and that your spirit , having dealt with that negative aspect , will not have to encounter it again . |
| 23 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
| 24 | Never lose sight of the fact that God himself selected the collection of assets and attributes which you now possess . |
| 25 | Nothing remains to me of the pleasures and possessions of my old life , which you now enjoy at my expense . |
| 26 | The , is one of the most common words in English and , to set up , the , all the time , would be very time consuming , and so this symbol was obviously available to the printer and obviously what it spells out is ye , which you now know from pubs that are called things like Ye Olde erm , Hen , and and that sort of thing . |
| 27 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 28 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 29 | Rising from the toilet , she pulls the nightdress over her head and steps into the bath , not first pulling the chain of the toilet because that would affect the temperature of the water coming through the showerhead on the end of its flexible tube , with which she now hoses herself down . |
| 30 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |