Example sentences of "now [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swing from suspicion to welcome which he met at Durham he now met at Cambridge . |
| 2 | Few Princes had ever made the journey to see the sight that Francis now gazed upon ; few Princes , and hardly any of lesser rank . |
| 3 | Safely buried , Osiris now arose from the grave to train his son Horus for the punishment of Seth . |
| 4 | The World Bank in its annual report stated that total developing-country debt now amounted to approximately US$1,341,000 million , or 6.3 per cent more than the $1,260,000 million recorded in 1989 . |
| 5 | The total storage available at Imperial Dock to meet the increasing demands of the Distillers now amounted to 55,000 tons . |
| 6 | The strategy that Freeman is following is similar to that of classical structuralism ( e.g. Lévi-Strauss 1963 ) now melded into a Lakoffian brand of cognitivism . |
| 7 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 8 | They now operated in cells , and even if Patrick and Jane were being sheltered , only a very small number of people , perhaps no more than two or three , might be aware of it . |
| 9 | He turned to the plastic bag that now bulged with deep red fluid and read the increments marked on the side . |
| 10 | Lincoln University , and the benefits it might gain from a Barnes tour , were also cited in J. Carter Brown 's 24 January letter , now appended to the Orphans Court petition . |
| 11 | The brain , now realised to be a ‘ processor ’ of information rather than a ‘ computer ’ , is also recognised as being a gland allied with the endocrine system . |
| 12 | Lady Selvedge , she now realised to her surprise , was wearing low-heeled walking shoes , not really quite the thing with her elaborately draped velvet toque but eminently sensible . |
| 13 | The proposed and prepared offensive in the Krevo area now became of secondary importance ; all reinforcements , weaponry and supplies must be hastened to Brusilov 's support . |
| 14 | Bogged down in Mexico and denied any support from Britain , Napoleon III had been unable to exercise any influence during the war which Prussia had forced on Denmark in 1864 and Bismarck was determined that there should also be no interference in the war which he now planned with Austria . |
| 15 | Memories of Cheddar , of Wookey perhaps , echoed through the ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ , and the Culbone landscape which had inspired in his latest writing in Osorio now glowed with the imaginative intensity of his opium vision . |
| 16 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 17 | Those who had fought together for the overthrow of Charles I , now bickered amongst themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ I had a sort of wager , ’ she said simply , amused at the alarm that now crept into his face . |
| 19 | He said in one interview that public honours meant nothing to him until his marriage but , even so , the mist of respectability now clung about him always . |
| 20 | The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations . |
| 21 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 22 | To crown it all , I now read in my newspaper that we are living in ‘ the post-feminist era ’ which I take to mean either that the battle is won — a view informed by the same kind of stupidity which once encouraged Macmillan to proclaim ‘ we 're all middle-class now ’ — or that feminism is a spent force and has slipped back into obscurity for another sixty years of oblivion . |
| 23 | Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far . |
| 24 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 25 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 26 | He now lived on the other side of the road from the Greencroft so it was very convenient for games of football or cricket . |
| 27 | Writers , artists and Bohemians now lived in some of the tiny terraced cottages facing the quay . |
| 28 | She had been a widow for 25 years and now lived in one room , earning a living as a charwoman . |
| 29 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 30 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |