Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean you were sitting where you are now and you told the glass to topple over and it did ? ’ |
| 2 | Just where he was now and where he was heading was uncertain , this possibly having much to do with the non-arrival of Murray and the Steward , since both would be coming from the West Country and Balliol was thought to be marching southwards down the middle of the land . |
| 3 | I was a bigger rogue then than I am now but Benjamin was as different as chalk from cheese . |
| 4 | The day was moving on faster than I was now and a heat haze shimmered over the Tarn as I came to its banks to sit and eat my lunch . |
| 5 | Such was the confidence of the little girl they used to call ‘ Shorty ’ at school that she was now considering taking on the might of the English legal system . |
| 6 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 7 | You come to spend more time together than you are now because you go home in the evenings she goes out . |
| 8 | But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on . |
| 9 | His eyes rested on her , mocking her , and Folly knew that it was now or never . |
| 10 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 11 | Volcanoes emit very large concentr very large amounts of hydrochloric acid as a gas H C L gas and earlier in the earth 's history volcanic activity was much , much more widespread than it is now and during this period vast amounts of H C L were emitted . |
| 12 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 13 | Those who are asking for that — many voices , including important voices , in Northern Ireland are asking for it — would create a situation for everybody in Northern Ireland that would be far worse than it is now and , God knows , it is bad enough at present . |
| 14 | He had n't touched the black box alarm so it was now or never . |
| 15 | And so we have and it 's now that the war 's over , we 'll now see the press pressing and probing and trying to erm undermine John Major in the way they 've erm |
| 16 | This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life . |
| 17 | Then gradually twitches of life manifested themselves and it is now as well as can be expected . |
| 18 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 19 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 20 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 21 | He desperately wanted to rest , but it was now or never . |
| 22 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 23 | Be just as you are now and you 'll be fine . ’ |
| 24 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 25 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 26 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 27 | The Poles were almost as keen to get foreign currency then as they are now and they allowed certain visits to relatives . ’ |
| 28 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 29 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |
| 30 | Well , it , it , it looked very similar , not quite as good as it is now but er , it was n't no where near as wide of course . |