Example sentences of "[conj] now i [vb base] [pers pn] " 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 never liked her and now I hate her . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | because if someone else says that and then all of a sudden I did n't know this and now I know it . |
| 5 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | It went down to forty four , forty two and now I believe they are on a forty hour week . |
| 9 | to bargain and now I suppose I ca n't sell anything |
| 10 | " 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 . |
| 11 | And now I have you two . |
| 12 | ‘ And now I feel it 's so nice to be free to try things . |
| 13 | Then he smiled and said , ‘ And now I buy you a drink . ’ |
| 14 | And now I discover you 're an arsonist as well ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | And now I think we are both ready for some food . ’ |
| 17 | And now I think it 's time for you to move in . ’ |
| 18 | And now I think I can too . ’ |
| 19 | And now I think I 'll go to bed . ’ |
| 20 | And now I think you must go . |
| 21 | And now I think he 's so far in front of the others it 's not true . |
| 22 | and now he 's touring Rome as well , took advantage of being left in Mexico , travel all over South America and now I think he 's going to do Australia and . |
| 23 | And then of course we had the mower and then we got a binder and now I see they 've er a harvester . |
| 24 | A man of ever-changing whims , and now I see you 're freed from your fearful collar , Midnight , you 'd do better to sign on . |
| 25 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 26 | ‘ I said it was and now I see I 'm right . |
| 27 | as if now I know it will soon be off my hands time has started to move forward again . |
| 28 | I 've been disappointed when there 's no transport to my SPRED , but now I organise it myself . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been moving my portable clinic from one place to another , but now I like it here . |
| 30 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |