Example sentences of "now that i had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 2 | Now that I had reached a town , there was an elaborate routine to undergo . |
| 3 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 4 | Now that I had turned against John to protect myself , everybody blamed me . |
| 5 | Now that I had found my silver-grey subject I could begin filming . |
| 6 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 7 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 8 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 9 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |