Example sentences of "now [pers pn] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have , in effect , been his wife for nine years , and now I wish to be his wife in truth . |
| 2 | Now I had to be on my guard against AIDS and the Devil . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to think that you should always be yourself but now I like to be made up , smile and look like a woman should , ’ preens Fay . |
| 4 | Now I have to be careful what I say about Lady Thatcher 's because of the laws of libel and also I do n't know who 's written which pieces but it 's known she 's had help you see . |
| 5 | So erm , so now I have to be careful , erm , but I 'm , I 'm very much better . |
| 6 | Now I want to be an actor . ’ |
| 7 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 8 | And so erm the , the experience in w the work experience I get now I want to be with a , a definite view to get to , get in training |
| 9 | Now I happen to be an extravert , so if I compensate by smoking this will keep me a perfectly balanced and healthy human being . |
| 10 | But now I wanted to be somewhere that had a future and no past to carry . |
| 11 | Now you seem to be in every place at once . |
| 12 | Now you seem to be laying a great deal of stress on the introduction of minimum standards , what , what 's the point behind that and what does it mean ? |
| 13 | Now you want to be reasonable . |
| 14 | And now she seemed to be planning a new use for those skills as I watched her gaze , fixed on Boy , or shifting from O to Boy . |
| 15 | Her temper had worsened since the pups were born , so now she had to be kept tied up all the time in the alcove near the kitchen stove . |
| 16 | You had to be the , the perfect woman who was one , who had grown up from the little girl of the eighteen-thirties who was all bouncy and skippy and optimistic ; now she had to be very quiet , she was admired for her innocence , for her delicate nature and her dainty physique . |
| 17 | Now she wanted to be useful again , and to work . |
| 18 | No , he would not hurt her , and now she wanted to be him , to be part of him . |
| 19 | Now she appeared to be unconcerned what people thought . |
| 20 | Harriet had left her daughter in bed , but now she appeared to be deep in conversation with a visitor . |
| 21 | But now she wants to be taken seriously . |
| 22 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 23 | Now we appear to be engaged in a business venture with the threat of a take-over . ’ |
| 24 | He ended his presentation of forty-five minutes precisely , with the words , ‘ We have been the number one in the United States for many years , now we aim to be the number one in Europe , in South America , the Middle East … . ’ |
| 25 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 26 | Last year we had an irritating habit of losing ; now we seem to be in a nasty spell of drawing matches . |
| 27 | Now they have to be reassessed in a context where older socialist and antiracist certainties no longer hold . |
| 28 | Hurricanes : we never used to have them ; now they seem to be a regular meteorological fixture . |
| 29 | ‘ Now they seem to be taking the same supine approach to the milk and potato marketing boards , where the Government is in the process of selling out the interests of farmers . |
| 30 | Now they appear to be looking to a Second Division centre forward to do the business . |