Example sentences of "[noun sg] now [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The struggle for the succession now lay more narrowly between Kikuyu claimants and Vice-president Moi . |
| 2 | Betty who had nearly died of fear now felt almost dead with relief and crept to Lydia to remonstrate with her . |
| 3 | Besides the Libyan connections established by the forensic evidence , the US Justice Department now had two witnesses . |
| 4 | As The Athletic News pointed out , City 's future now seemed more assured , with the growing popularity of soccer in Leeds and a ‘ progressive manager ’ in Chapman . |
| 5 | His future now rested , as it did until his death , on the forbearance of his main creditors , the Arkwrights . |
| 6 | Labour now commanded 287 seats , compared with 261 Conservative and 59 Liberal : an effective though not overall majority . |
| 7 | But the car now proved obedient , and the north-east London suburbs received her , soothing her as they usually but not invariably did with their eloquent monotony , their repetitive regularities , street after street of semi-detached houses , their lights lit , their curtains drawn , their television sets humming , their inhabitants safe within . |
| 8 | Tell your car insurance company too ; with your car now garaged , they may offer a reduction in their premiums , which will partly offset the rise in your buildings insurance . |
| 9 | On Germany , Bush said that he was not sure whether differences over the terms for German unification had been narrowed , although each side now understood the other 's concerns better . |
| 10 | The home side now began to look much the better side and Cummings kept Town in it with a fine selection of acrobatic saves . |
| 11 | Orowan now tested a differently shaped specimen of the same mica . |
| 12 | Prudence as opposed to boldness now seemed the keyword . |
| 13 | IT WOULD be interesting to have a league table for literary industries — has the Darwin industry now surpassed the Wittgenstein industry ? |
| 14 | In 1371 the Black Prince , a sick man , retired from the thankless task of ruling Aquitaine , and the English command now became fragmented . |
| 15 | ( Cottage cheese seems to be a term now applied almost entirely , and characteristically , in our looking-glass culinary language , to the thin and acid skim-milk product of big dairy factories . |
| 16 | The monastery of Ferrières offers a good example of the sort of dilemma now faced both by individuals and by communities . |
| 17 | The Club now had a new , more democratic constitution , achieved by much hard , tedious and thankless work on the part of some , and aided by a robust , vocal membership in general . |
| 18 | Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons , often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her . |
| 19 | Here at the former farm was a pond now covered , but the rivulet still flows alongside Court Road . |
| 20 | Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow . |
| 21 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 22 | Having argued in August that benefit extensions were unnecessary because the recession was over , the administration now backed a proposal by the Senate minority leader , Bob Dole , to extend benefits by 10 weeks . |
| 23 | With the growing crystallization of powers within the state from the 1860s , the reform of the civil service and the abandonment of political appointments , Simon 's cunning politicking now seemed out of place . |
| 24 | Consequently , the rule now laid down by the House of Lords is that where in construing a consolidation Act |
| 25 | The most important stage of Barbarossa 's rule now began to unfold ; in this phase he aimed to expand imperial power and to unify Italy , Alsace and Burgundy . |
| 26 | This new liability principle contained res ipsa loquitur provisions in accordance with which the carrier now had the burden of proving freedom from fault . |
| 27 | Knowing Hurley , Coleman was pretty sure that the DIA now had a better grasp of what was going on at DEA Nicosia than the DEA itself . |
| 28 | Kraal who had been Woil 's greatest mocker and enemy now became his greatest friend , for he admired Woil 's cunning and quick thinking , and grieved to see him so downcast . |
| 29 | A second time of close companionship now began , though of course the group had kept in close touch by correspondence and short visits in the interval . |
| 30 | This last reflection — it was Nova Scotia , he was pretty sure — seemed to tidy up the whole matter , which his mind now presented as a uniform interlocking structure , with working parts . |