Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regarded them now as he regarded other ordinary but embarrassing habits of youth : odd hair styles , a passion for cheap cologne , eccentric dressing , strange obsessions — all things to be grown out of . |
| 2 | If you have any sense you 'll let me pay you what Crevecoeur cost you now and let hir come back with us . ’ |
| 3 | He approached her now and sat beside her , saying : " Well , the relief has arrived after all . " |
| 4 | She used it now as she said , ‘ It 's so sweet of Susan to spare you tonight . |
| 5 | If I told you now that we needed another five gangs of floor tilers or whatever it was which you had n't got enough of , it wo n't be floor tilers something you have n't got enough of , everything , could you get them by Monday ? |
| 6 | As he held it , the movement of the bell on the roof still lifted it now and again . |
| 7 | I mean , if someone asked you now if you wanted a cup of tea , you would instantly visualise just that and say ‘ yes please ’ . |
| 8 | She rather spoilt him now and again ; but when it showed that he was n't intelligent like Constanza she did n't like it . |
| 9 | He watched her now as she singed the birds over the gas-flame . |
| 10 | ( watched it now and then , but no one taught us . ) |
| 11 | he ju I just ca n't think how he put it now but I said ooh it 's a start |
| 12 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 13 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |