Example sentences of "now [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 2 | My ex is now my ex . |
| 3 | ‘ I still have , but now my legs are n't quite as young as I feel . ’ |
| 4 | I still have , but now my legs are n't quite as young as I feel . |
| 5 | But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’ |
| 6 | — Tim Loughton , of Battersea ‘ Now my name 's Binge and I like a party , but these parties are something else again . ’ |
| 7 | Now my uncle and aunt have moved out and so have we . |
| 8 | Now my children are grown up so I do n't need constant help . |
| 9 | I enjoyed another two years in Kenya but now my work is mission appeals in South West Britain and I have discovered at last the source of our treasure ! |
| 10 | By now my mind was working along similar lines . |
| 11 | A 10-year-old asks for shoes : ‘ Right now my mother does n't work . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 13 | Now my relationship with David did actually include sex , but it was never initiated on that basis as he 'd come to my flat only as a lodger and during the course of the time he was there , we slept together . |
| 14 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 15 | Now my mind 's eye saw Aunt Louise 's little resting place : but the inscription ? |
| 16 | At least , I thought , their eyes would have looked on that same pond , the pond which now my own eyes saw . |
| 17 | Now my cries shall cease to grieve thee , |
| 18 | Now my trembling heart finds rest : |
| 19 | Now my eyes are starting to glaze over . |
| 20 | Now my responsibility is to bring them a non- projected activity . |
| 21 | ‘ Now my mate Bob here , is a singer , lovely singer is Bob . |
| 22 | It is now my opinion that the main things to remember if you 're going back to work after having a baby are that as long as you find someone you 're happy with to look after your baby while you 're at work , you 'll be happy and so will your baby , and that you will be able to do the job when you go back , even if the thought of it scares you to death in the months leading up to your return . |
| 23 | Now my Cid knew the evil disposition of the King towards him , and when he received his bidding , he made answer that he would meet him between Burgos and Bivar . |
| 24 | I enjoyed being the creeper , but not the victim ; now my role was reversed . |
| 25 | By now my chest was being X-rayed in tiny vertical slices . |
| 26 | Now my grandchildren are enjoying it . |
| 27 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
| 28 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 29 | Gateshead is now my favourite stadium ; the crowd is highly knowledgeable and turns out to support us in all weathers . |
| 30 | There was a bit of light , now my eyes had adjusted to it , from distant street-lamps I suppose . |