Example sentences of "and [pers pn] now [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Pat and I now have a small group of wild-caught Yellow Swords from one of the new collecting sites .
2 Remove the four bolts each side which bolt the backrest brackets to the body sides and you now have a two seater .
3 Though not intellectual , my mother was intelligent , and she now acquired a wide range of new interests .
4 Alas , Thompson and her chosen theatre were star-crossed and she now has a production but nowhere to stage it .
5 All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that .
6 Intimacy , I had learned , can begin in a strange variety of ways , and we now had a relationship where previously there had been nothing .
7 Both have proved invaluable and we now operate a rolling prospect list of some 3,700 names , every one generated by the title and not bought-in .
8 Previously we estimated that our data request omitted 6.5% of cases and we now add a further 6.1% who may have been lost because of inadequate records .
9 But God wanted us in that society and we now have a choice .
10 So they were cheap , and nasty , and we now have a housing crisis which will endure beyond this century .
11 With ‘ good head office staff , I 've been able to spend upwards of two days a week out in the service and if you keep that up it 's amazing how many places you will have been over the years and we now have a much more open relationship ’ .
12 It then moved to being paid so much per week , for an trainee , and we now have a mixture of such much a week , and so much for the output related fundings , the jobs , the N V Q's , the F E courses which I mentioned earlier .
13 The wounds became tiny scars and we now have a really strong friendship . ’
14 A Hampshire Police spokesman said today : ‘ We can confirm we are reinvestigating the circumstances leading to the death of Steven Jarvis and we now have a 15-year-old girl in custody helping us with our inquiries . ’
15 We have written procedures around these roles , and we now have a fairly robust system to deal with everything that is important to the customer . ’
16 And they now took a new name — the Duke and Duchess of Windsor .
17 Keeper John Lukic was beaten three times in the second half and they now face a giant task in the second leg of this first round tie .
18 Everyone knew this , but only the Japanese acted on it and they now have a ten-year lead in robotics .
19 Because what the government have done , is they 've taken two , two steps , they 've created a really , a joint regional office of government at civil service level , and they now have a single regional director who is in charge of all the departments at , at the .
20 The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season .
21 He did that several times until he had established the depth to reach the lock and bolt and he now knew a single spring-loaded tumbler holding it in place .
22 He was later diagnosed as having Graves Disease , a thyroid ailment , and he now takes a daily synthetic thyroid hormone pill and a blood-thinning drug .
23 His wife Doreen runs a 1965 Morris 1100 , and he now has a 1962 M.G. 1100 Mark I ready for restoration .
24 Dumouriez was , like so many Frenchmen , fascinated by the idea of humbling the hitherto unvanquished islanders , and he now undertook a thorough study of the reasons why past attempts had invariably failed .
25 At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers , and he now underwent a conversion course onto the more modern Beauforts .
26 And he now enjoys a walk again … though until the mental scars heal , nowhere near the traffic .
27 Top left : Elizabeth Jane 's father installed this shelf above a kitchen window and it now makes a colourful setting for a blue and white plate collection .
28 The company says it has four new products coming this quarter — Stacker for Macintosh , Stacker for OS/2 & MS-DOS , and two new releases of Stacker for Windows & MS-DOS to address the compression shortcomings of MS-DOS 6.0 , and it now has a streamlined organisation .
29 And it now provided a convenient framework for the praise of a comital lineage .
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