Example sentences of "now [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we gon na do dates now or I think we regard the deputies visit as a special visit and |
| 2 | Because I know when I feel happy I feel quite well ’ , while a 74-year-old farmer 's widow stated ‘ I 've reached the stage now where I say is n't it lovely and good to be alive , seeing all the lovely leaves on the trees , it 's wonderful to be alive and to able to stand and stare ! ’ . |
| 3 | I du n no what to do now so I go up to the big electric sign board and have a look at it . |
| 4 | I am starting to puff a bit now so I stop behind a Ford Capri and try to get my breath back . |
| 5 | He 's watching us right now so I 've no doubt he 'll have something to say about it to you . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm very puzzled by this now so I ask for clarification , if it 's a long franchise then , if it 's a fifteen year franchise , are you saying that the franchisee will have control over the track ? |
| 7 | I want to give it to Angela to put away now so I know my money 's put a way . |
| 8 | But Paul 's head over that now so I mean he 's doing well for himself . |
| 9 | I got down there just now so I said to him |
| 10 | Okay , now so I think what one may have to say it depends on the species and the circumstance . |
| 11 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 12 | Now so I want to know the sort of the numbers in all the boxes . |
| 13 | I 've got to go on the gate now so I have n't time to run after them . |
| 14 | Well Grant should have tape loaded by now so I suppose I 'd better go and see how he 's getting on . |
| 15 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 16 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 17 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 18 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 19 | Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities . |
| 20 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 21 | Now that I had reached a town , there was an elaborate routine to undergo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I wish now that I had never spoken to you . ’ |
| 24 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 25 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 26 | Now that I had found my silver-grey subject I could begin filming . |
| 27 | Now that I had turned against John to protect myself , everybody blamed me . |
| 28 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 29 | He was on his way home — characteristically late , I realize , now that I keep the same office hours from the back blocks of the building where I am now sitting . |
| 30 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |