Example sentences of "[adj] now [conj] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 2 | What was more , I was 21 years old now and I had discovered just how much freedom I could have away from home ! |
| 3 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 4 | It was almost dark now and everyone had settled into their dugouts , prepared for another night of shelling and mortaring . |
| 5 | She nodded shakily , feeling cold now that she had lost the warmth of his body . |
| 6 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |
| 7 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 8 | One of the girls , the plump one with the freckles and the missing front tooth , looked very plain and dowdy now that she had lost all her pretty blonde curls . |
| 9 | The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously . |
| 10 | She might not be alive now if we 'd left her there . ’ |
| 11 | Are there aspects of training that you find to have been missing or superficial now that you have had the chance of putting your technical skill to the test ? |
| 12 | Well they 're probably a bit shocked now cos they 've got clean water . |
| 13 | They are in danger of becoming complacent now that we have reached welcome lower levels of inflation , and are lulling themselves into believing that the problem has been ’ licked ’ . |
| 14 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 15 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 16 | No it was nice now but I had to sit like that with my arms up my sleeves . |
| 17 | 6.8 The observations above on the behaviour of these adjectives may appear to suggest a surprising degree of linguistic sophistication on the part of ordinary language users ; it may , though , seem less surprising now that we have recognized in the earlier part of this chapter the sense-qualifiers , since these distinctively qualify the property of a noun without constituting a qualification of the corresponding entity . |
| 18 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 19 | It 's academic now because they 've lost and they 're out of Europe |
| 20 | Yeah but erm but it 'll be alright now cos I 've done it . |