Example sentences of "but now [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 2 | She did love him , she had always loved him , but now that they were both adults the love she felt for him had taken on a far greater significance . |
| 3 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 4 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 5 | But now that we 're getting or going to get presumably more involved in union matters it might be advantageous if we could have a minute taker . |
| 6 | But now that we are free from the constraints of big business , we have a major opportunity to develop our own ideas . |
| 7 | But now that we 've changed the thing we 've got to this is something we 've got to add into it |
| 8 | You refused to accept my offer of dinner , but now that we are here you are n't going to refuse to eat with me ? ’ |
| 9 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 10 | She had not meant to say it out loud , but now that she had , she almost explained . |
| 11 | For seven years they 'd lived apart — Adam in Wickrithe with Gran , herself in Coniston with Aunt Sarah and Uncle Nick — but now that she was back in Wickrithe , helping Gran with her bed-and-breakfast business for the summer , it was as if there 'd been no break . |
| 12 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
| 13 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
| 14 | But now that she HAS come forward , detectives say it 's important that the rapist is caught before he strikes again . |
| 15 | Granny 's son had been a gamekeeper on the estate , but now that he had gone elsewhere to work Sir Benson had given Granny notice that she must quit the cottage . |
| 16 | Three years earlier Richard had performed homage to King Louis at Montmirail but now that he had worn the ring of St Valerie he could claim that he held his duchy in indissoluble union with the people of Aquitaine and the saints who watched over them . |
| 17 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
| 18 | He had begun his account , intending to tell Lyn the whole of it , but now that he had reached the point of disclosing the site of the hole into the mine and of describing it and what happened there , he felt uneasy . |
| 19 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 20 | The fact that the title of Khan was a military as well as a civil appointment had not occurred to him until now , but now that he thought about it , the suggestion seemed ridiculous . |
| 21 | Again he paused , wearily , but now that he had started to talk something like relief entered his eyes and his voice . |
| 22 | But now that he was here , there was no point in pretending . |
| 23 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 24 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 25 | But now that I think further about it , I am not sure Miss Kenton spoke quite so boldly that day . |
| 26 | ‘ But now that I have made myself available for England again it 's important to be part of this Championship . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But now that I am , you see Marion as a threat to your position . |
| 30 | ‘ My first aim has to be success with Llanelli but now that I 've accepted this position I 'm going to be totally committed to developing Welsh rugby ’ . |