Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] now [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The character can not benefit by what he or she now knows and all the reader can do is reflect on all that has been lost or missed . |
| 2 | This new notion of defeasibility seems to allow ( probably ) that I now know that my children are playing in the garden , because the second added truth negates the defeating powers of the first . |
| 3 | She told the judge that she now believed that Mr Ahmed , a Pakistani national , used the passport copy and subsequent marriage certificate to remain in this country . |
| 4 | ‘ So you now admit that you knew him ? ’ |
| 5 | It is claimed that we now know that the world operates in accordance with laws , and so we do not need to bring God in to explain things . |
| 6 | Disciplines that we now accept as having thrown much light on the evolutionary process were thus introduced originally as alternatives to nineteenth-century ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 7 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 8 | There are many inevitable but accidental resemblances to names that we now have or know … ’ |
| 9 | Now two things have happened — one is that better , safer pills have been introduced , but secondly a lot of the scares which there were of five or ten years ago , have been shown to be quite unjustified , so we now know that using the more modern of the oral contraceptives erm there 's really very little risk indeed . |
| 10 | However , given the history of the relationship between the Inns and the judges which we have recited in this judgment we can see nothing conceptually difficult about the judges , as visitors , telling the Inns that they now perceived that their particular disciplinary procedures were unfair and needed rectification , even though they had concurred , in principle , in the creation of those procedures . |
| 11 | Does the Prime Minister agree that the statement by Terry Waite 's captors that they now recognise that they did wrong and that what they did has served no useful purpose should be understood by all those who engage in the vile practice of taking hostages , anywhere ? |
| 12 | One or two Conservative Members have admitted today that they now recognise that they got it wrong in 1987-88 . |
| 13 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 14 | In answer to this the respondents who were in favour of this clause and its enforcement said that they now deemed that the sale agreements were null and void and they began to sell another brand of petrol at both garages . |
| 15 | On the one hand , although he now thought that the Commonwealth was " little more than a figure of speech " , he acknowledged America 's continuing interest in a British presence in the Indian Ocean . |
| 16 | In a press conference in Rabat on Aug. 14 Hakim said that the attitude of the Algerian government , and specifically of Defence Minister Khalid Nezzar , had changed , and that it now recommended that a " rapid settlement " with Morocco be found . |
| 17 | In his resignation letter , Sir Geoffrey noted the growing difference which had emerged between himself and the Prime Minister on the increasingly important issue of Britain 's role in Europe , and especially on monetary policy , and stated that he now felt that he could no longer serve with honour as a member of her government . |
| 18 | The sharing of the collector 's salary was really what appears to have been in the thoughts of Craigbarnet and his friends , for Dougalston too returned to this point in his letter to Montrose 's commissioner , telling him that Craigbarnet 's friends had given him to understand that they would support Kirkton 's re-election , ‘ with the same sellary that he now has if he would give Craigbarnett fifteen or twentie pound sterling yearly out of it ’ . |
| 19 | Several comparable Government-funded libraries have recently been successful in obtaining ‘ one-off ’ grants from Scottish Office Departments for retrospective conversion , and I now recommend that Bob Crossman and I work together on putting forward a request for such funding from SO:AFD . |
| 20 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
| 21 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 22 | I 've spent the night thinking about everything that happened , and I now realise that I made a mistake about you being involved with Harry Martin . ’ |
| 23 | Kathleen had run home , and she now understood that it was , on this occasion , for reassurance , as though , by conveying the news to her sister , she would convey by implication something of her own anxiety , and receive comfort in Isabel 's own concern . |
| 24 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 25 | Anna 's family are all dead and she now believes that she is the last person left in the world . |
| 26 | If you now find and read Shelley 's poem , you gain the possibility of comparing Byron with Shelley in terms of how they represent Islam . |
| 27 | Soon afterwards exactly such a particle — the antielectron , or positron — was detected , and we now know that for every type of particle there is an appropriate antiparticle . |
| 28 | For example , I can say that Jones is behaving just like Smith did , and we now know that Smith behaved as he did because he had feelings of being persecuted , so it is possible that Jones has feelings of being persecuted , too . |
| 29 | And we now know that these ghastly effects are the results of what we referred to in the last lecture endotoxins . |
| 30 | We have studied the Labour party 's recent pronouncements and we now know that Labour proposes to renegotiate the whole deal . |