Example sentences of "now [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 2 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 3 | The rivalry of the Great Powers now led all contenders to pursue the British , French and Dutch to the world beyond Europe , spreading empires to the limits of the globe . |
| 4 | Now read both these reports again , put them together , and tell me what you think . ’ |
| 5 | He said that officials had now halved their projections of the number of Soviet Jews set to arrive in 1991 , and now expected some 200,000 , or only slightly more than in 1990 ( 185,000 ) . |
| 6 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 7 | Sukarno made a radio broadcast of sublime meaninglessness : Such rhetoric had gone down well in the past , but now made little impact . |
| 8 | ‘ And that you are n't in the middle of watching your favourite television programme , ’ said Mark conscientiously , for his parochial visiting now made this question automatic . |
| 9 | I knew he now realized this was serious , but I was not sure I had got through to him how serious . |
| 10 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 11 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 12 | And Glotz has for many years now supervised all my recordings . |
| 13 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 14 | With the degree of mechanisation now found many of the hours claimed would be seasonal . |
| 15 | Jalalabad has up to now disproved this theory . |
| 16 | Irina 's news now drove these matters from his mind . |
| 17 | To her career as an actress , the always practical Lillie now added another : that of a highly successful racehorse owner . |
| 18 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 19 | Co-operation with Europe in inter-governmental institutions was still desirable , but Bevin now rejected all idea of a third force because this could undermine the US commitment to the Continent . |
| 20 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 21 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 22 | Even streets were too extravagant of space : courts and alleys enabled more houses to be packed into a given area : and where , in Deering 's day , the apple or the cherry orchard had blown in springtime , courts of back-to-back houses now faced each other across an open drain ( Fig. 13 ) . |
| 23 | All the optimism of the summer had evaporated , and we now faced another winter and Christmas without our families in this cold hole in the ground . |
| 24 | And Hyde and Jekyll now hated each other with equal passion . |
| 25 | Sharpe now anticipated another battle ; one for a crossroads that linked two armies . |
| 26 | Repeat this process ( through ljadi ) until all routes from that node have been followed ( now followed each of ‘ c ’ , ‘ l ’ and ‘ i ’ routes from the ‘ d ’ node ) . |
| 27 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 28 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 29 | The French and Spanish negotiators now spent some happy weeks agreeing how to divide up England 's overseas possessions once she was defeated , the agreement between them being formally signed on 12 April 1779 . |
| 30 | The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him . |