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Example sentences of "now [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	By now everyone has heard that there is a ‘ crisis ’ in English .
2	We got the compromise right in the early days , and now everyone has copied our specifications .
3	In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days .
4	It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years .
5	Yet now someone had found one of the openings , and was using it to kill me .
6	Henry Phipps had been the chief celebrant at this particular form of ‘ get-together ’ , and now someone had brought his priapic revels to a rather spectacular end .
7	Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime .
8	I wish now I had sent it on with the rest of the clothes but I did n't want to risk crushing it . ’
9	Now I had reached the remains of one of those chalk banks built by Victorian engineers .
10	Now I had reached the Was dale Head Hotel .
11	By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground .
12	The body was Henry Clerval 's , and so now I had destroyed another person .
13	At the convent a year ago I think I probably said many things which I wish now I had kept silent .
14	Now I had to reach the shopping centre and meet Ray Coary the manager , who would find me accommodation .
15	Now I had to remember that this was a complicated young guy .
16	now I had met her and could hear of Him :
17	Now I had to do something about Mary-Claude 's family , because after Emerson 's broadcast , they started getting calls as well .
18	I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do .
19	We walked on , but now I had to stop every few yards because people were coming up to me ; friends who wanted to introduce other friends , schoolfriends of John 's , an ex-girlfriend , cousins .
20	She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation .
21	Now I had graduated to the Birmingham-rug and Dufy-print circuit , but I wondered what I had sacrificed to do it .
22	But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated .
23	One person might say : ‘ I am a workaholic , because I realize now I had to win points to get the approval I craved from my parents . ’
24	Everything had happened in the wrong order , and now I had to try to bring my feelings up to counter-balance the overpowering weight of this physical attraction which had sprung up out of nowhere and knocked me sideways .
25	I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff .
26	Now I had to work even harder , as people came to look at me ten times a day .
27	Now I had to start thinking in world terms , for those Championships were coming in 1987 .
28	Now I had to start " facing up to things " again .
29	By now I had forgotten Vauban and was surreptitiously staring at the two seated figures .
30	The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC .