Example sentences of "to [pers pn] now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we ought to bite the bullet and write to them now and say if you do n't pay us a cheque for this amount cos it 's qualifying we 'll collect on next date . |
| 2 | But I suppose we 'll have to hang on to them now until the owner gets back . ’ |
| 3 | Do n't back on to me now before I start |
| 4 | He 's calling out to me now but I can hardly hear him because I 'm screaming so hard , wetting my pants as I squeeze the screams out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ellen , I would that you could come to me now that you are alone and would ask you to consider it seriously . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It seems obvious to me now that several factors involved could have been given more thought . |
| 12 | My main reservation about the book , which is more evident to me now than when it first appeared , is that Lodge has too direct and univocal an understanding of the elusive concept of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 13 | He hands me a brown manila file , and a handwritten invoice which I imagine he is giving to me now while the connection between the reams of faxes and the many noughts , in local shillings , of his invoice is still fresh . |
| 14 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 15 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 16 | He says John 's wo n't speak to me now because of the motorbike and er I says oh Ryan you must be imagining things , he says no he says he just wo n't talk to me because I 've got the motorbike . |
| 17 | He is quite used to me now and even accords me some respect . ’ |
| 18 | If he came to me now and knelt and handed me the poker , I could n't hit him . |
| 19 | Oh well I opposite side of the road 's nothing to me now cos I , I live on my bike . |
| 20 | Oh you 're next to me now cos |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm going to say something to you now and I want you to promise me something , for I 'm not long for this side of the curtain . ’ |
| 23 | A new relationship formed today will be very important to you now and in the future . |
| 24 | A new relationship formed today will be very important to you now and in the future . |
| 25 | A new relationship formed will be very important to you now and in the future . |
| 26 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
| 27 | So my mother calmly said , And I 'm not opening the door to you now or ever , she said . |
| 28 | It occurred to him now that Blackbeard had got on his tracks in the fog . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But Wilkinson warned : ‘ It is up to him now whether he improves . |