Example sentences of "but now [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | White friends that I 've got , their mums argued at first , but now they 're just bringing the baby up as their own . |
| 2 | Apart from rifling the chests of the Excise offices in the towns they had occupied , the Scots had while in England behaved with remarkable correctness , but now they were increasingly described as thieves and ruffians , an attitude epitomised by the verses written about a group of Yorkshire sportsmen who formed themselves into a unit of amateur warriors known as ‘ The Royal Hunters ’ : |
| 3 | The rooms were probably once Templar cells but now they were luxuriously furnished . |
| 4 | ‘ But now we 're just trying to forget that part of our life I know that sounds awful but we 've just had to rebuild our lives again . ’ |
| 5 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She has tried very hard to stop him stealing but now she is so fed up she just wants to move away and try to make a fresh start in a new home . ’ |
| 6 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 7 | But now it 's gradually starting to improve again , and we 're hoping that this will continue . ’ |
| 8 | In its heyday it must have been a good little vehicle , but now it was definitely finished . |
| 9 | But now it was all opening up a little . |
| 10 | Francis Bacon : I know that I was very much influenced by Picasso , especially when I was young , but now you 're so flooded with illustrations of everything , that you hardly know in the end what you 're principally influenced by . |
| 11 | But now I 'm finally getting to that burner . ’ |
| 12 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 13 | I used to approach my future like a loose cannon , but now I 'm really trying to do the best work I can because I think about my daughter all the time . |
| 14 | ‘ But now I 'm really beginning to feel I belong . ’ |
| 15 | And that it did n't feel it when she was sort of combing it , but now I 'm actually doing that I can feel it short . |