Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] now [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could my fondness have kept you steady I should not now appear before you in this solemn manner . |
| 2 | ‘ And if you had n't interfered and ruined my life I might not now have my career in ruins ! |
| 3 | ‘ And I could n't now adapt , ’ said my mother , sounding grand , ‘ to a smaller house . ’ |
| 4 | I think that had I grown up with my parents only twenty years before , I would not now believe this . |
| 5 | What I ca n't now work out is how as a university student in England I managed to get tickets for Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at those first Easter Festivals . |
| 6 | I will not now detail the reasons for failure with the first three women — we lost some seven selected conceptions — but go straight to the one with whom we succeeded . |
| 7 | I can not now choose to return . |
| 8 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |
| 9 | Where and when I first heard the names ‘ Rhine ’ or ‘ Danube ’ I can not now remember . |
| 10 | I think the address was suspect , though I can not now remember how . |
| 11 | there were four people at the last meeting er and two others from the department a male and a female who looked after the bits of the department but I can not now remember what their names were let me just see if I 've got my notes which were written on the inside of a British Airways flight ticket come in , hi ya |
| 12 | I can not now become a full dervish ; or at least not until my nieces are educated and married . |
| 13 | One of the Signals assistants was male , a Leading Aircraftsman whose name I can not now recall , but I will call him Fred . |
| 14 | I would like to trace the man on the extreme right , who was a great friend , although I can not now recall his surname . |
| 15 | Identify UP projects that will end as of 1993–94 and any planned projects which may not now go ahead . |
| 16 | She might not now think of this as the action of a deflated bully , but the symptoms are classic . |
| 17 | She could not now pretend that none of this was known to her , that she was still simply a diligent and faithful daughter , loyal handmaid of a noble art . |
| 18 | She could not now shrug her shoulders . |
| 19 | She meant , after ten minutes ' solemn consideration , to write that she was extremely sorry , and entirely responsible for the change of plan , but she could not now sit for him . |
| 20 | Also , Tilly had decided that she could not now reveal the news she had brought with her this morning ; shocking news , news that told how Richard had been cheated and deceived by his own wife … and devastating news of Beth … how she was not safe and happy with Tyler Blacklock , as they had first thought , and how she also had been betrayed , both by her own brother Ben , and by the woman who had raised her from a child . |
| 21 | From fearing that a total commitment to Guy Sterne would be the greatest mistake of her life , for some inexplicable reason she could n't now seem to envisage a future without him . |
| 22 | At first Cathy was miserable , because she would not now have anyone to play with , but she soon forgot him . |
| 23 | Labour ward councillor Margaret Thomas said people in the house had threatened opponents of the planning application who would not now come forward for fear of repercussions . |
| 24 | The Tory election victory came as a relief to Parkin , who will not now have to learn a completely new set of tax laws . |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend — with his hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State , with whom I have corresponded on the matter — undertake to consider further how a housing association might help with the difficult and complex problem faced by owner-occupiers in Galmington in Taunton , whose homes were built in a non-traditional manner just after the war and who can not now sell those homes ? |
| 26 | A SOCCER club paid a record fee for a player who can not now play . |
| 27 | I would encourage you to accept the job offer , even if you can not now imagine how you would cope . |
| 28 | the Crown itself can not now deprive them of that power : see In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 29 | ‘ We must not now add to the burden facing the medical staff and the Bland family by taking part in emotional or noisy demonstrations ’ . |
| 30 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |