Example sentences of "[adj] now [that] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nodded shakily , feeling cold now that she had lost the warmth of his body . |
| 2 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 7 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |