Example sentences of "about [pers pn] now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dull red glow was all about them now and the baleful light fell across the Robemaker 's cloaked figure so that , although his face remained hidden , Nuadu caught the glitter of his eyes , red and inverted and , despite the belching heat , he felt ice close about his heart . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 3 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 4 | In fact , she knew little more about him now than before she had met him — Cara would make mincemeat of her if she knew that ! |
| 5 | ‘ Teams know about him now and he is still learning , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 6 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 7 | Her voice , her body , her smell were as familiar to him as his own , but essentially he knew no more about her now than when she had arrived . |
| 8 | He knew little more about her now than when they had first encountered each other in the abbey ruins on a blustery August evening less than six weeks earlier , had for a minute stood and gazed and had then moved silently towards each other in a wordless , amazed recognition . |
| 9 | His arms were about her now and there was an actual whine in his voice as he said , ‘ Emma … |
| 10 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
| 11 | I feel better about it now than I have done since the accident , ’ she admitted . |
| 12 | It is worth the effort because I feel so much better about it now than I did before discovering the benefits of low fat eating and intensive stretching exercises . |
| 13 | well your talking about it now and , and with a degree of emotion , do you still feel it ? |
| 14 | Is it worthwhile talking about it now or shall we leave it til next week ? |
| 15 | Well I 'm gla glad she 's getting something done about it now cos you and she 'd just been left , sh er , had n't been persuaded she 'd have just let it go on and on and on would n't |
| 16 | about it now because it 's just as easy really . |
| 17 | Now , do n't worry about it now when you come back to this right , you can do that in the bar if you like , that okay ? |