Example sentences of "now [vb pp] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , Jeff had now given me something new — something really important to me . |
| 2 | He has now given me a further , and most embarrassing proof of his confidence by asking me to take charge of his son and heir , aged two-and-a-half months , for a short time . |
| 3 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 4 | I placed Geoffrey Wilkinson , a Principal Inspector of Accidents ( who has now succeeded me as Chief Inspector and head of AIB ) , in charge of the investigation . |
| 5 | Seen in this light , and in the light of what he had now told me , I studied him afresh . |
| 6 | And you just poured the water in top press a button and you get draught lager and they have now produced I believe , er it was network marketing , and I was n't involved I did n't want involved in network marketing and it now produces gin and tonic vodka lemonade . |
| 7 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 8 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 9 | He has now left me and I 'm stuck with paying a hefty joint overdraft . |