Example sentences of "we now [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now went further , proposing changes in the way that doctors were paid so that the remuneration system much more clearly recognized the good doctors and the good practices . |
| 2 | We now passed great herds of cattle guarded by naked boys , and encountered frequent parties of mounted Arussi , all armed with spears . |
| 3 | We now determined to try to pursue our own scheme and teamed up with Trevor Osborne of Speyhawk . |
| 4 | We now made a practice , as soon as we camped , of building a perimeter round the camp with loads and camel saddles , and , if there were sufficient bushes available , added a thorn fence or zariba . |
| 5 | This sense of responsibility was now being seriously eroded by the continuous Ma'badong chants , and by our increasing desire to surrender to , rather than to observe objectively , the wave of history into which we now felt ourselves being helplessly , anxiously , gathered . |
| 6 | If this is a problem , however , it is one the novel shares with many of the novels we now read . |
| 7 | Towards Røst the sea was a silver reflector , whilst the sky darkened , an Arctic trick we now knew well . |
| 8 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 9 | Third , and of more practical importance , we now knew where to look for any further changes ; by being able to concentrate on IMHV and LPO and discard ‘ irrelevant ’ tissue we might hope to magnify any effect we were studying by diminishing background noise . |
| 10 | We now had to grapple with problems of ethics , with questions of morality and of personal philosophy , as we tried to draw a simple police code of practice together to frame those new deviancies created in the 1960s by the Acts of Parliament relating to drug use . |
| 11 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 12 | We now had the air crews coming back from low-level sorties over France and Belgium and reporting damage they had seen to docks and military installations , and , much more upsetting , roads thronged with refugees all trying to get away from the zones of fighting . |
| 13 | Helpfully , I remarked that at least we now had a Prime Minister who liked football . |
| 14 | It was then time to dig over the kitchen garden , although we now had help . |
| 15 | We now had two new questions : |
| 16 | We now had on the board : |
| 17 | We now had to keep the children confined to a thin corridor of safety , hemmed in as they were both by insects and reptiles . |
| 18 | We now had a lot of food and water , and we sailed on . |
| 19 | After a month 's frantic activity we now had an office , but we needed someone to run it . |
| 20 | Intimacy , I had learned , can begin in a strange variety of ways , and we now had a relationship where previously there had been nothing . |
| 21 | We now had to create a manufacturing improvement strategy to let us do it . |
| 22 | He described the heap of rubble from which it and the rest of the building had risen and how he and the owner , who came up for weekends , had taken eight years to finish it and turn it into the Mirimar which we now perceived it to be . |
| 23 | Indeed there were many policemen who were totally unable to comprehend , never mind live in the haphazard world of marginality which we now inhabited . |
| 24 | Twenty five years later , Bevan expressed his hostility to the EEC in terms redolent with the memory of 1930 : ‘ Are we now expected to go back almost a century , reject socialism , and clasp free trade to our bosom as though it were the only solution of our social evils ? ’ |
| 25 | We had grown together not just in terms of affection but in our attitudes , in our views on personal dignity and in a mutual trust that helped us deal with the curious life we now shared . |
| 26 | We now demanded that he should escort us into Bahdu . |
| 27 | ‘ That is the history of what we now called Travel Related Services , ’ says John Petersen . |
| 28 | Our immediate problems were sorting out our living arrangements , for although it had been agreed with Tandri that we would occupy the ship 's only excuse for a cabin we now found our things moved down into the hold . |
| 29 | We found a very nice you know we once had this push up horse , we now found a push up doll which is sort of quite nicely coloured and this little spinning top which I think is quite nice . |
| 30 | The seats we now occupied were directly behind those of the complaining woman and her companions . |