Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] now " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ As everyone knows now , lads like Sean Gregan are playing in the first team and will be regulars in the future . ’ |
2 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
3 | Erm certainly on the rescue tenders , erm erm on , on each division would have that equipment , it 's not carried on every fire engine as far as I know now , erm I , I do n't see why it should n't but er again I think it 's a matter of cost , and , and carrying it about as well and finding the space for it , but certainly it 's at hand when it 's needed . |
4 | Much as I feel now at your damned silly question ! |
5 | Well erm I mean Andrew , he was very clever , he went to university and as I say now he 's nearly fif getting , getting towards fifty well even so he 's buying a house and last December things got so bad he took a job as a dustman a at Anstey , he lives |
6 | I mean as I say now , how can you turn round to a to a bloke who 's , well does n't matter what his on , eh , what , what ever his , his rate of pay is , how can you turn round to him and say you ca n't have more than seven per cent , and his got , his got something like a about twenty five , thirty per cent . |
7 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
8 | As writer back then , I used my IBM PC for word processing , the same as I do now . |
9 | It is for these reasons that I felt then , as I do now , that in pursuing an industrial career I was performing a social service , of no less significance than my service in the armed forces . |
10 | Because it 's a long time since I felt like this , as good as I do now . |
11 | No nun should feel as I do now . |
12 | I would do as I do now probably and go |
13 | I should have confessed everything , as I do now , and appealed to your great generosity of spirit . |
14 | ‘ And when we are married , I 'm sure I can work twice as hard as I do now , and earn more . ’ |
15 | If I had ever loved you , if I loved you still , I could not hate myself for my weakness as much as I do now . ’ |
16 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
17 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
18 | As I do now |
19 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
20 | And er I remember this Miss very well , she was i , skirt down to her ankles sort of thing , black skirt you know and high collar and sort of tied hair , very dark person but she was a very nice charming lady as I recall now . |
21 | At first I did n't know who the bearded man was for ( as I realise now ) I had been too busy participating to see . |
22 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
23 | Okay , well yeah , you 're changing it as you go now . |
24 | You will feel the cold even more when you ca n't get about as you do now , and you will be even more bored and lonely . |
25 | You do have courage , Hari Morgan , and never are you going to need it as much as you do now . ’ |
26 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
27 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied , ‘ we had speech , but we did n't have as many words and names for things as you have now . |
28 | But the nature of space , time , and gravity really is as remarkable as you have now learned . |
29 | This is it , take your bed there , Saturdays and Sundays and as many nights as you want now personally me , I 'd have stuck that |
30 | Er as you say now you 're going |