Example sentences of "now i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 2 | I began to think she would be worthy in time of being my mistress , which till now I had been a little scrupulous about . |
| 3 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 4 | Now I 've been informed that I have £200 rent arrears . |
| 5 | I was originally going to do between one and 12 weeks on it , but now I 've been there two and half years , ’ she said . |
| 6 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 7 | Then , stretching a point , he declared : ‘ Now I 've been through it all , I have to admit I had a ball . ’ |
| 8 | Now I 've been most places it 's just like going to work and doing your gig . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I 've been told that I 've lost my place and I 'm very disappointed . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 11 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 12 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 13 | Now I 've been released and forced into exile , but you ca n't forget all those people you have left behind suffering in prison . |
| 14 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 15 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 16 | I never had any money erm that would help me to get off benefit , I was caught in the benefit trap and now I 've been able to get a part time job , my husba ex-husband 's paying a reasonable amount and my children are better off . |
| 17 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 18 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 19 | Well now I 've been clearing my mind on the role of the Chief Constable a and of the Police Committee . |
| 20 | back over with you , I 'll sort something out while I 've got some small change in me purse now I 've been shopping , I 'll sort it out |
| 21 | for three weeks now I 've been stuck on eleven stone , I got , I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks , now I 've stopped |
| 22 | I usually have to come in seven o'clock , that 's how I did it and now I 've been over here sort of mucks the whole system so I 've got a driving lesson tomorrow night , I ca n't cancel that |
| 23 | Now I 've been much happier not to have Mrs. Thatcher around . |
| 24 | I will be next week , but up to now I 've been the Deputy Managing Director . |
| 25 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 26 | Up until now I have been fascinated by the sound of a bomb leaving the barrel ; this evening and the closeness to the enemy mortar had changed all that . |
| 27 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 28 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 29 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 30 | ‘ Now I have been working hard on my fitness and my ankle has improved . ’ |