Example sentences of "[pers pn] be now [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was a dream I held dear , but ‘ t is the woman you are now that I love — sweet and true and courageous . ’ |
| 2 | and erm , they 're always stuck together , and so I suppose now she 's now that she 's , her friends has separated she has , she instantly separated . |
| 3 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 4 | How long ago would it be now that you had it all done ? |
| 5 | But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's now that I need it . ’ |
| 7 | And so we have and it 's now that the war 's over , we 'll now see the press pressing and probing and trying to erm undermine John Major in the way they 've erm |
| 8 | It is now that the band requires an accountant . |
| 9 | It is now that the marked effect of training can most clearly be felt . |
| 10 | It is now that a man may pick the flowers and fruit of his lifetime , and complete his gardens of philosophy . |
| 11 | This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life . |
| 12 | It is now that the final form of the book begins to emerge , and the researcher has to begin to withdraw from the research group . |
| 13 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 14 | So it was when my life began so it is now that I am a man . |
| 15 | THE spring Town Crier came yesterday and what a terrific read it is now that it is being produced by Darlington College of Technology students . |
| 16 | If Adam was speaking like he is now that pick it up . |
| 17 | It was now that Popham Down wrote his footnote . |
| 18 | It was now that mattered . |
| 19 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 20 | It was now that gender became a significant factor . |
| 21 | It was now that he became ‘ converted ’ to Islam . |
| 22 | It was now that the true landlords , the Church and the nobility , sought to assert their half-forgotten rights of eviction and rent-raising in order to trap some of the profits from rising land values . |
| 23 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |
| 24 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 25 | I think it was now that Lili decided I stood in need of care . |
| 26 | It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity . |
| 27 | It was now that she started a canteen , run by a mother of eight , Gwenny Hughes . |
| 28 | It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes . |
| 29 | It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was now that he appointed Ebroin , himself an able military leader , to be his archchaplain . |