Example sentences of "now she [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some minutes now she had been disturbed by the way Beth was pacing to and fro in front of the great fireplace , a deeply thoughtful expression on her face , and her whole manner one of extreme agitation . |
| 2 | For ages now she had been able to make Pogo do whatever she wanted . |
| 3 | Up to now she had been so enthralled by the adventure that , despite being clad in only a cotton shirt and slacks , she had hardly noticed the cold . |
| 4 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 5 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 6 | Odd , he reflected , that now she had been forced to make a straight denial , he had lost his confidence . |
| 7 | For a few yards now she had been aware of a car cruising behind her . |
| 8 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 9 | Till now she 'd been able to cope , after a fashion ; even going dumb with terror had been a way of coping . |
| 10 | Now she 'd been careless . |
| 11 | And until now she 'd been naïvely pleased with the result . |
| 12 | Now she 's been thrown over by Leinster she 's the Marchioness of Rossmayne again . |
| 13 | Now she 's been given notice to quit by Wednesday … |
| 14 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 15 | But now she 's been told she ca n't . |
| 16 | Now she 's been having an argument with the council and while she 's been arguing , you know she 's got a grievance , while she 's been arguing she takes her anger out on them and tells them what she thinks of them . |
| 17 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 18 | The sexy Batman Returns star says that up until now she has been too busy chasing her career to take any time off . |