Example sentences of "but now [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know you 're not very intelligent , but now they know as well . |
| 2 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 3 | They were thinking , like Berbizier , of building for the 1995 World Cup , but now they realise that confidence comes from getting your senior players right and winning each game as it comes along . |
| 4 | ‘ Once they were shy , ’ he told me , ‘ but now they attack because the white man … ’ he pointed an imaginary rifle at the window and pulled the trigger . |
| 5 | Some time before his entrance , campesinos had rushed and squabbled like geese when another confession box was opened , but now they stood or sat in silence holding their children to them as the liturgy was gone through . |
| 6 | but now they realize that however you need to have mass mobilization in order to have successful land reform |
| 7 | But now we understand that these things really did n't amount to much . |
| 8 | But now we see that even the absence of law is no guarantee against the possibility of retrospective regulation . |
| 9 | But now we find that we 've got more current going through . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a nice shopping centre but now we feel that money could be spent on a refurbishment programme , ’ she said . |
| 11 | But now she announced that she wished this title to be publicly used . |
| 12 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 13 | But now she realized that she had seen him before . |
| 14 | Undecided , she had wondered if it might be too formal , but now she realised that this was going to be no jeans-and-sweater occasion . |
| 15 | She had believed Thomas was shy of the Dane , but now she realised that the child gave nothing out because he received nothing back in return . |
| 16 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 17 | She wondered why John had not been more open with her but now she felt that she understood his situation better and they spent a blissful week together before he left . |
| 18 | When she had lost her virginity four nights earlier , Constance had been elated ; but now she felt as she had always understood women did on their bridal night : deeply upset and even slightly resentful at what had happened . |
| 19 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 20 | She had nagged me to accept it , but now she behaved as though I had done her a disservice by doing so . |
| 21 | She had thought she loved him , and that he loved her , but now she wondered whether the only people they were capable of loving were themselves . |
| 22 | But now she wondered if she 'd been wrong — or , at least , only partly right . |
| 23 | But now it says that telecommunications is a strategically important market . |
| 24 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 25 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 26 | But now it looks as though I 'll have to . ’ |
| 27 | Alexei knew that he had always been aware of her — they were not strangers by any means — but now he straightened and stared in open admiration . |
| 28 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 29 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |
| 30 | He had never questioned their presence , but now he realised that it had oppressed him . |