Example sentences of "now [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now everyone called him ‘ Colbert ’ . |
| 2 | Now me hear dem a talk bout World Peace , |
| 3 | I do not know whether she went on to have a family — but I do know that there was now nothing to prevent her doing so . |
| 4 | Now someone took them and I do n't know who took it intending |
| 5 | But now I feared I was getting too old for romantic friendships . |
| 6 | But now I wish you were alive . |
| 7 | " Now I put it to you , to your sense of fair play : would you have handled these Reds very gently ? |
| 8 | I had never thought about my father , about meeting him , not knowing , and something like this happening , and now I saw it was possible , the desire to laugh became a fearful compulsion . |
| 9 | You paint a picture like that Mars now I saw you do one time , empty with loneliness . |
| 10 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 11 | And now I got 'er , ai n't I ? ’ |
| 12 | Now I mean we , we did very well going up there and |
| 13 | now I mean you know , they 're a bit young . |
| 14 | Cos people , I mean now I mean you ca n't sort of even think about that till mid January or later . |
| 15 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 16 | Perhaps I should mention now I mean I I I 'm not fill in questionnaire 's but it would it would be helpful if you actually did erm fill in that before you actually leave this evening and leave it on the on the table on the way out if that 's possible I think that , that information which you put on them would be useful . |
| 17 | Now I mean I bring it back to you on the agenda for two reasons . |
| 18 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 19 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 20 | Now I mean I would hate to use the money we 've got . |
| 21 | every day now , now I mean I do n't know how many she 's got living in there or what they 've got living in there , they stay |
| 22 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 23 | Whereas now I mean it 's a case of if you lose anything it 's your own fault for putting it down . |
| 24 | , now I mean it , I mean |
| 25 | I 've been disappointed when there 's no transport to my SPRED , but now I organise it myself . |
| 26 | Now I ask you how muche would the holle price of the hrose [ horse ] come unto . |
| 27 | Now I ask you : would you move in there ? |
| 28 | Now I ask you , do you think that a privatized network that has to pay a divided to investors will lead to a better , safer , cleaner , cheaper railway ? |
| 29 | Now I ask you |
| 30 | Right now I 've we 've got some new documentation for the wallets . |