Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 2 | They had become my friends and there was no way that I would now go back to being their problem dependant . |
| 3 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
| 4 | I switched increasingly to erm political history , then I moved from economic and political history to social history , to some extent linking the two , and increasingly over the last ten years , partly through the work that I 've done on the history of broadcasting , and on twentieth century history , I think I would say that I would now be a cultural historian . |
| 5 | It is to the changed world of the primary classroom that I shall now turn . |
| 6 | To answer that I must now talk about that dark , unmentionable and secret thing called sex . |
| 7 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 8 | so that I can now walk fine with my plastic legs . |
| 9 | But somehow he does get things done , and he has , after all , resisted the lure of the west up to a point — ‘ can I say that I could now fill 360 days with western offers and stay somewhere between America , Europe and Japan for an entire year ? ’ — to continue his own reconstruction work at the Maryinsky . |
| 10 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 11 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 12 | The same circumstances required that Franca should sleep downstairs ; Franca had herself , promptly forestalling embarrassment , simplified the rearrangement by announcing that she would now occupy her boudoir ; and letting Jack and Alison assent silently , and without having to murmur ‘ please ’ or ‘ thank you ’ . |
| 13 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 14 | When , in time , Mariot announced that she would now seek her couch , and the men rose to stoop their way out of the ingle-neuk , Agnes remained sitting . |
| 15 | Celia supposed that she would now have to say something about why she did n't want a child , but it seemed so difficult to put into words . |
| 16 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 17 | A senior detective at Marbella said last night : ‘ This lady told our detectives that she had no idea there was that much concern in London for her daughter and assured them that she would now return home as soon as possible . ’ |
| 18 | She had the disagreeable impression that she 'd now well and truly taken the bait , and was to provide entertainment accordingly . |
| 19 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 20 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 21 | Conscious that if she accepted his presence at Thorsbury without protest , her chance to remove him was gone , nevertheless she felt that she could now handle the man . |
| 22 | Then she turned her attention back to Luke 's lecture , confident that she could now listen to the once-hated voice without a pang . |
| 23 | She was n't sure that she could now . |
| 24 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 25 | However , if you think that you may now qualify , there is an explanatory leaflet NP1 which is available in post offices and from the DHSS . |
| 26 | I hope that you may now be encouraged to experiment with weaving , and it may help you to use up those oddments of hand knitting yarn which you do n't have time to knit . |
| 27 | That you could do , you mention that you could now entertain |
| 28 | The introduction of new technology means that you can now book hostel accommodation in advance ; a pilot fax scheme is in operation for onward reservation between some hostels ( most hostels will also accept payment by credit card ) . |
| 29 | Also , I seem to remember , although ca n't be sure , being told that you can now produce Data Only versions of the tape following a Change Request that Simon put to Ray Hawi on 8 May . |
| 30 | The impact of technology is such that you can now do by electronic means a lot of things which were previously done by middle managers — collecting information , processing it , manipulating it in various ways : shunting it around the organisation . ’ |