Example sentences of "[conj] now i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus , although now I think I have killed this feeling . |
| 2 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I never liked her and now I hate her . ’ |
| 4 | And now I got 'er , ai n't I ? ’ |
| 5 | I had wanted so much for these two girls , and now I had nothing . |
| 6 | " It was n't exactly a question and now I know what you 're like I do n't think I can — " |
| 7 | ‘ I guessed something was wrong on the boat , and now I know what it was . |
| 8 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 9 | because if someone else says that and then all of a sudden I did n't know this and now I know it . |
| 10 | ‘ And now I know who I 'm looking for I do n't need any from you , ’ he responded succinctly and , pushing himself to his feet , disappeared back into the cockpit . |
| 11 | The Factory had n't been specific ( it rarely is ) , but I had the feeling that whatever it was warning me about was important , and I also suspected it would be bad , but I had been wise enough to take the hint and check my Poles , and now I knew my aim was still good ; things were still with me . |
| 12 | I had never thought about my father , about meeting him , not knowing , and something like this happening , and now I saw it was possible , the desire to laugh became a fearful compulsion . |
| 13 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 14 | For Margaret Williams , of Everton , Owen Owen was a family tradition : ‘ I used to come here with my mum and now I bring my children . ’ |
| 15 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 16 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 17 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 18 | Somebody else had said this to me and now I disliked it . |
| 19 | And now I find myself eating tomatoes in the winter , which must be considered something of a luxury . |
| 20 | I had got first prize for guitar at the Melody Maker contest and soon I was selling stories and now I find my principal interest is still p H. |
| 21 | It went down to forty four , forty two and now I believe they are on a forty hour week . |
| 22 | to bargain and now I suppose I ca n't sell anything |
| 23 | " And now I suppose it 'll be my fault the heating has n't got better immediately , " he muttered to himself as he walked along the narrow passageway . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 25 | And now I have you two . |
| 26 | ‘ And now I feel it 's so nice to be free to try things . |
| 27 | Then he smiled and said , ‘ And now I buy you a drink . ’ |
| 28 | And now I discover you 're an arsonist as well ! ’ |
| 29 | Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ? |
| 30 | I was neither young nor beautiful , and now I doubted my gifts . |