Example sentences of "[conj] now that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 2 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 3 | And now that I looked again at Mr White Face , I saw that beneath his paint his face had some of the configurations of a rat , with sharp little jaws and pointed nose , not at all like the inhabitants of Sarawak , a blunt-faced company , with which I was acquainted . |
| 4 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 5 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 6 | Perhaps I just had n't noticed before , but now that I did , it seemed that funerals , and allied subjects , were very much the in thing . |