Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [conj] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've seen some kites , they 've impressed you and now you want one for yourself . |
| 2 | I thought despairingly " I 've only wounded him and now I 'll never find him in the dark . " |
| 3 | That letter had unnerved her and now she could not face speaking to the man who had written it . |
| 4 | Phil has booked it and now we 're going to miss out because you 've forgotten me . |
| 5 | I should have seen you afore now . |
| 6 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |
| 7 | At first he thought an adult must have caused them but now he thought she could have been dropped by a child . |
| 8 | Agrippa , his fat face covered in sweat , had already despatched one but now had lost his sword and kept turning his horse sharply to counter his final opponent . |
| 9 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 10 | When he raised his standard at Nottingham he was joined by a number of Members of Parliament who had previously criticised him but now felt that the Parliamentary cause was in the hands of extremists . |
| 11 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |