Example sentences of "[pers pn] be now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 2 | All of them are now under review to make sure they are ‘ in a particular market where we can win in the long term ’ . |
| 3 | The appendix on useful verbs should come in handy for those not up on adventure jargon , but be careful with the address section — a lot of them are now out of date so be prepared for some lack of response in some cases . |
| 4 | Staff and participants involved in them are now asking critical questions about the future of such projects . |
| 5 | I share John Main 's concerns , as reflected in MG Minutes of 7. ix.93 , over the volume and nature of public enquiries coming in to the Garden , because many of them are now being directed to the Library . |
| 6 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |
| 7 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 8 | oh some of them are now |
| 9 | Well they 'd never , they had n't made a long player Amstrad did and now one or two of them are now are n't they ? |
| 10 | My Mum and I are now the very best of friends , not really like mother and son . |
| 11 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 12 | Dr. Ethelwynn Trewavas , well-known to cichlid keepers for her work on African Cichlids , and I are now collaborating on a paper on this subject . |
| 13 | I must n't become a bore on the subject , but I have to say that in physical terms Tod and I are now feeling absolutely terrific . |
| 14 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 15 | Lo and behold , after further meetings , I am now the proud owner of a ‘ grant ’ . |
| 16 | That 's why I am now relatively open-minded about the Grand Slam Cup . |
| 17 | ‘ I am now surprised if the parent involved has not got such a history . ’ |
| 18 | I am now twenty-five years old . |
| 19 | My sympathies are with Marwood Yeatman , who has the right perspective on life and whose lifestyle I am now gaining myself . |
| 20 | I have to say that I am now prepared to act as I see it : with the same political cunning as any politician . ’ |
| 21 | I am now nineteen and until I was seventeen I was ignorant as any babe . |
| 22 | He noted his reading and his earnings : ‘ Thoreau I am now reading with interest and pleasure . |
| 23 | Surely you see a difference between me , who wrote long , incoherent , and enthusiastic letters , enjoyed perfectly the songs of birds and the sight of a sundown , believed in the possibility of perfect happiness , perfect beauty , perfect purity , and a perfect world , all perfected , too , by that thing Nature which was so real to me ; a difference between me then and thus , and what I am now , dull unenthusiastic , unimaginative , but more coherent and prudent , though still imprudent enough to write such things as that Sonnet , which even you esteem bad , I think … . |
| 24 | He himself , he says , does ‘ not belong to the party that would condemn the common and familiar ways of speaking ’ , according to which we know many things at the level of appearances , such as that I am now seated rather than standing , and that fire appears hot rather than cold . |
| 25 | I am now going to offer you five ways of interpreting the cross . |
| 26 | I am now expected to lift her , helpless as a fool that she is , out of that great bed , daily , across the room , into a chair , and back again , and to run up and down when she catches a chill , when her back aches from being pressed against the chair . |
| 27 | ‘ I am now . ’ |
| 28 | It is this latter fault alone which explains the fact that rather than waste precious time in thinking up some other location I was lazily content to make Miller 's London home a flat rather like the one in which I am now diligently at work , here in cruelly named Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 29 | And although I am now tired , very cold and extremely hungry — with a headache into the bargain ! — I am compelled to continue for a little while longer . |
| 30 | I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment , when I was more worried about myself than I am now . |