Example sentences of "to [pers pn] now that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 2 | Ellen , I would that you could come to me now that you are alone and would ask you to consider it seriously . |
| 3 | It occurs to me now that the man might just possibly have meant this in a humorous sort of way ; that is to say , he intended it as a bantering remark . |
| 4 | ( Note that Liz Waterland has modified her idea of apprenticeship since this 1985 pamphlet appeared : ‘ It seems to me now that the text , whether in print or in the child 's own creation , is the guide and demonstrator , the adult and the child together are the apprentices — albeit at different stages of competence — who are feeling their way towards knowledge of the meaning of words ’ ( Waterland , 1986 , p. 147 ) . |
| 5 | In fact , it seems to me now that what remained constant did so , and all the more so , because of the changes with which the family was faced . |
| 6 | The plethora of adjectives point , again , towards self-dramatisation , and it is clear to me now that I used this device as a means of bearing depression in general . |
| 7 | It seems obvious to me now that several factors involved could have been given more thought . |
| 8 | It 's not the only thing you need to do , there are some other things that I can say to you now that you might recognise . |
| 9 | It occurred to him now that Blackbeard had got on his tracks in the fog . |
| 10 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 11 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 12 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 13 | It seemed to her now that all she had ever had had been the dream of having dreams ; the goal of having goals one day , once she had made her mind up what it was she wanted . |
| 14 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 15 | Denise says : ‘ I 'm really looking forward to it now that I 'm sure it 's a reality . |
| 16 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |