Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] now [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 2 | I thought of Sir Charles ' death , and the awful sound of the hound , which I had now heard twice . |
| 3 | I believed that with that double victory I had now achieved more than most in British athletics , with the exceptions of course , of Coe , Cram and Ovett . |
| 4 | I do n't like lying to my sister , and I 've now run out of tales she 'll believe . ’ |
| 5 | I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) . |
| 6 | I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend . |
| 7 | I have now done so . |
| 8 | In addition , I agree and I have now done so , supplied them with further information about this county 's employee profile , and that 's sir , is where the matter now rests . |
| 9 | After five years when it seems it has been written , rewritten , proof read etc , I have now run out of answers . |
| 10 | I have now discovered how to be really good at sports without any exertion at all . |
| 11 | I have now worked out the numbers of the 7 client based leaflets we have distributed over approximately 1 year . |
| 12 | The teenager said she has now given up smoking and is looking for a job . |
| 13 | She has now survived more than nine months without the aid of a ventilator . |
| 14 | She has now collected about nine or ten of my pictures , all of which contain some yellow roses , and has grouped them together beautifully in a small alcove . |
| 15 | After the superbly wide-ranging anthology of Glass Work last autumn , she has now pulled out all the stops to arrange a further fabulous survey of all that goes into the making of a book . |
| 16 | But she has now handed in her notice and will leave the £15,000-a-year job in a fortnight . |
| 17 | She has now settled in ; she is doing more for herself , and sometimes she is full of life in the Home . |
| 18 | She has now left home and is in hiding . |
| 19 | Neither the size of the orchestras nor the size of the stage seems to have deterred you from staging major works by Verdi — Un ballo in maschera , for instance , which you 've now come back to after fifty years — Wagner , and Strauss . |
| 20 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 21 | But whatever talents she had once had , she had now turned ferociously against them , whereas her husband did still pay a curious self-willed homage to the intellectual virtues ; he possessed an 1895 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which he would , from time to time , read . |
| 22 | She had now turned abruptly and was addressing Joe , and he , taken by surprise , stammered , ‘ Yes … oh no . |
| 23 | She had now grown quite used to Betty who had , on the whole , been very patient with her ; and , once accepted , it was restful having someone around to do the cooking and the washing-up . |
| 24 | It all hurt , but at least she had now got back at him , and she did n't have to see his face to know he was furious . |
| 25 | Were you surprised how soon you got into the RSC — and that you have now ended up after only just over a year and a half in the profession playing Juliet and Hermia ? |
| 26 | You have now settled down with Bria 's mother , model Nicole Mitchell . |
| 27 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 28 | We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside . |
| 29 | We 've now moved on |
| 30 | So I 've got a number , I mean I started with , had had about fifteen , we 've now got about ninety six . |