Example sentences of "[vb past] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam stopped now to light a cigarette , contemptuously confident of his ability to manoeuvre and control . |
| 2 | He tried now to think with savage pleasure of the dismay likely to afflict his mother , once her female companions heard of it . |
| 3 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 4 | In the Thatcher era , the nation 's leaders seemed now to reflect the ‘ enterprise ’ outlook of finance , banking , and credit rather than that of traditional manufacturing or other industries . |
| 5 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 6 | Throughout their journey they had felt little of the uneasy fear that smells danger behind every bush but despite the weariness that dulled their senses these half-seen forms of rock among the trees seemed now to imply a threatening human presence . |
| 7 | The quivering net of light from the river seemed now to have set the whole room trembling . |
| 8 | Even the route they had followed to this point seemed now to have closed behind them . |
| 9 | Mr Malik seemed now to have taken on board several other members of Cranborne School who were growing tired of cross-country running . |
| 10 | They had all disappeared except for one of the bigger branches that bent and pointed a little his way and seemed now to come and go before his very eyes as drifting mist obscured it . |
| 11 | All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste . |
| 12 | I think that a horse has to be a minimum of 7/8 bred now to become a top class event horse . |
| 13 | Innocent began now to concentrate on the imperial bishops and on securing practical support for Otto , who in turn was exhorted to assume a manly attitude and in short " to live up to " the title to which he had been called . |
| 14 | The concentration on Heron 's bond issues in Switzerland , where only lead managers can call a default , leaves a potential conflict of interest if the banks which issued the bonds for Heron sought now to negotiate against the company . |
| 15 | ACTION NEEDED NOW TO CUT ACCIDENT TOLL ON THE FARM |
| 16 | Why is much work needed now to repair and renew the infrastructure of central Scotland , by building new docks , airports , motorways , pipelines , electricity lines and sewage systems ? |
| 17 | Nothing would stop him , yet she struggled now to contain the fear that was in her , spreading like some pernicious cancer . |
| 18 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |
| 19 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 20 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 21 | Griffith had demonstrated that the theoretical strength could be approximated experimentally in at least one case , he had now to show why the great majority of solids fell so far below it . |
| 22 | The issue now was seen not just in terms of provision of new housing or the simple eradication of the slums as a technical exercise ; housing likes and dislikes had now to inform town planning of preferences in provision . |
| 23 | In this business , as soon as one meal is complete there is a need to start on the next , and the ACC chefs of the battalion , lunch behind them , had now to prepare for the functions to be held that evening in the Officers ' , and Warrant Officers ' and Sergeants ' Messes for 180 and 350 people respectively . |
| 24 | And had now to face . |
| 25 | If we wanted now to bring our congregations together on Sunday morning it would be completely impossible in the original building ; in fact we would fill it twice over . |
| 26 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |