Example sentences of "[pron] i now " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 2 | But my , my view would be that I would er you know investigate this fully and er come forward with a recommendation , but that er my own er thought would be , and I I now take your thoughts , that we should not get ourselves erm launched into a very big , massive erm you know operation of advertising this franchise afresh and going through the whole procedure . |
| 3 | Now the on the subject of treatment I I now pull out a government report here , because where do we get criticized from ? |
| 4 | Well okay well look I I now I need a commitment . |
| 5 | The secret — which I now divulge — is that they are dead easy to grow . |
| 6 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 7 | You have my soul now , all my thoughts are yours ; only a short time before you can have all of me , even my poor body which I now strive to make purer and better , healthier and stronger for that time . |
| 8 | If the DUP 's criticisms of ‘ gangsterism ’ have made it unpopular with some sections of the working-class Protestant population , its view on the sabbath and alcohol consumption have further widened the divisions and it is to this sort of issue which I now want to turn . |
| 9 | This close association of religion and politics has also given the organizational vehicle for the politics — the DUP — an unusual character which I now wish to explore by examining the tensions caused by the presence in a political agenda of religious attitudes . |
| 10 | My own section on the practicalities of prescribing now includes case histories and explains the even more simplified approach which I now adopt . |
| 11 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
| 12 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 13 | I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality . |
| 14 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 15 | We sat around his bed and he went into one of the formidable silences which I now accepted as the concomitant of wisdom . |
| 16 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 17 | The landing itself was fitted with two large , double-glazed skylights in the sloping ceiling , which I now realized were responsible for the light and feeling of airiness throughout the upper floors . |
| 18 | I told Sandy my favourite South African cricket story , which I now pass on . |
| 19 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 20 | They are matters to which I now turn . |
| 21 | Whether I am so satisfied is the third question , to which I now turn . |
| 22 | Far below in the glens , pinpoints of yellow light , growing in number as darkness fell , served to accentuate the loneliness of the scree slopes which I now traversed . |
| 23 | This raises the question of political practices and the transnational capitalist class , to which I now turn . |
| 24 | Marmite , heels , three shirts , half a pound of Plectra , and some product called Syntax , which I now envisage as being like a health-food called Bemax that my father used to sprinkle over his breakfast cereal . |
| 25 | Because in fact , it 's in the middle of some words , erm , but as , it 's at the beginning of a word , which I now ca n't find . |
| 26 | Any ill thing I said to you I now take back , any harm I meant to you I hereby revoke . |
| 27 | Let us have in mind , only slightly less imprecisely , a period of light in London and thereabouts , that one I now call yesterday , and a following period of darkness , last night . |
| 28 | I told him I now knew many things I did n't know before . |
| 29 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 30 | What I now want to suggest is that there is a lot of very successful science currently being conducted which literally depends on functionalism being true . |