Example sentences of "now i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish now I had sent it on with the rest of the clothes but I did n't want to risk crushing it . ’ |
| 2 | Now I had reached the remains of one of those chalk banks built by Victorian engineers . |
| 3 | Now I had reached the Was dale Head Hotel . |
| 4 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 5 | The body was Henry Clerval 's , and so now I had destroyed another person . |
| 6 | At the convent a year ago I think I probably said many things which I wish now I had kept silent . |
| 7 | Now I had to reach the shopping centre and meet Ray Coary the manager , who would find me accommodation . |
| 8 | Now I had to remember that this was a complicated young guy . |
| 9 | now I had met her and could hear of Him : |
| 10 | Now I had to do something about Mary-Claude 's family , because after Emerson 's broadcast , they started getting calls as well . |
| 11 | I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do . |
| 12 | We walked on , but now I had to stop every few yards because people were coming up to me ; friends who wanted to introduce other friends , schoolfriends of John 's , an ex-girlfriend , cousins . |
| 13 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 14 | Now I had graduated to the Birmingham-rug and Dufy-print circuit , but I wondered what I had sacrificed to do it . |
| 15 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 16 | One person might say : ‘ I am a workaholic , because I realize now I had to win points to get the approval I craved from my parents . ’ |
| 17 | Everything had happened in the wrong order , and now I had to try to bring my feelings up to counter-balance the overpowering weight of this physical attraction which had sprung up out of nowhere and knocked me sideways . |
| 18 | I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff . |
| 19 | Now I had to work even harder , as people came to look at me ten times a day . |
| 20 | Now I had to start thinking in world terms , for those Championships were coming in 1987 . |
| 21 | Now I had to start " facing up to things " again . |
| 22 | By now I had forgotten Vauban and was surreptitiously staring at the two seated figures . |
| 23 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 24 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 25 | For a whole week now I had dreamed of a small child every night , and perhaps Bessie was right , as a message came from Gateshead . |
| 26 | Now I had watched the Villa v scum match on Monday with my united mate and did n't pass too many comments ( they were too bloody good to pass comment on ) when he heard that Leeds had lost again my life was hell . |