Example sentences of "he now " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 'Ow old is 'e now ? ’
2 On holiday out here with him now .
3 Doctor 's looking at him now .
4 ‘ Look there 's Hoddle — he 's good when he 's playing for Tottenham but look at him now . ’
5 He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days .
6 He saw him now as a possible Archbishop of Canterbury .
7 He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now .
8 I liked him when I met him and I still like him now .
9 ‘ Anyway , I go over and see him now and again .
10 Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch .
11 Look at him now .
12 He 'd have to go after him now , get the wire off him and fix the door .
13 ‘ I 'll get him now , ’ said Lee .
14 What would Jack do to him now he 'd caught him ?
15 Gina had never contributed — why should she gain anything from him now ?
16 She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before .
17 Could she really be going to kill him now ?
18 Gloria had to belong with him now .
19 But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past .
20 ‘ Oh yes , I can see him now .
21 She was very close to him now : all she had to do was stretch out her hand … .
22 ‘ And we 've got Swire Sugden where we want him now , ’ I said .
23 ‘ No , it 's just that the pressure is off him now , ’ says Frank Whaley , the standout in Stone 's last box-office hit , Born On The Fourth Of July , and the actor who plays The Doors ' mild-mannered guitarist Robbie Krieger .
24 ‘ All right , for the sake of argument , I am Ewan Famber , or the nearest it is possible to get to him now . ’
25 I can hear him now , sniffing and purring under his lank hair , pretending to be full of ‘ compassion ’ or concern as he recounts the endlessly embellished details of my so-called iniquity .
26 I would n't know him if I tripped over him now . ’
27 ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two .
28 Quintus stresses that he must ask those he has already helped as a lawyer to repay their obligation to him now , assure the powerful that they will not regret supporting him , and make friends where he normally would not .
29 But he has seen him now — when we did a concert together — and it is all much better . ’
30 There was a part of his mind filled almost to sickness with self-mockery , a bitter mockery grown out of the fear that was back with him now , mockery for the excellence of his seamanship .
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