Example sentences of "[pers pn] now but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry I ca n't serve you now but I 'll get back to the bar as soon as I can . |
| 2 | What was she now but a maimed thing , repugnant and ugly , which no love could ever be large enough to embrace ? |
| 3 | Well I do n't think we need to , the jury need read them now but they 're there and available for you to see in due course yes . |
| 4 | Er I remember one fellow er I think I can safely mention them now but they 're both dead anyway . |
| 5 | My friends wait for me now but never mind . ’ |
| 6 | He 's calling out to me now but I can hardly hear him because I 'm screaming so hard , wetting my pants as I squeeze the screams out . |
| 7 | He put out his hand towards her now but did n't touch her , saying , ‘ Do n't faint ; it wo n't help you any because I 'll only revive you with a jug of cold water and make you listen to the finish . |
| 8 | My brother-in-law 's with her now but visiting ends at eight and I have to take him home . |
| 9 | Yeah I 'm a bit too old for him now but er you understand . |
| 10 | His pay packet was there unopened and he did n't open it now but paid for his round from a wad of notes held together with an elastic band . |
| 11 | The stone had been raised high just as Wexford was raising it now but brought down that time on the back of Hatton 's skull . |
| 12 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 13 | There was nothing for it now but to try the undertakers themselves . |
| 14 | Clearly any or all of these are possible but erm er naturally you would understand that if you had them daily by film you would be having you know ninety pieces of paper er and clearly that may not be appropriate at times well times , you know hundreds by the looks of it now but usually times ten at least . |
| 15 | I 'll do it now but if it |
| 16 | It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it . |
| 17 | No I think what it is I understand it now but if you ask me in a couple of weeks |
| 18 | There was nothing for it now but to go on . |
| 19 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 20 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 21 | They 've got instruments for doing it now but I used to stick to my bit of stick . |
| 22 | Actually I 've I I I 'm I ca n't do it now but at the next the next traffic I 'm going to liven it up a bit for you . |
| 23 | But you I think I think w er well it 's no good saying it now but I do n't think you can ask one person under the heat of all that to count up separate |
| 24 | In particular the issue of er ca n't find it now but the one on highways er where er er where where it where it quite rightly mentions the concern of the public about payments . |
| 25 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 26 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 27 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 28 | Yes it only wants stitching up , I said er really I could sit and do it now but I could n't be bothered . |
| 29 | It would n't take long to do it now but I ca n't be bothered |
| 30 | You 've forgotten it now but |