Example sentences of "now [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Government ministers now boasted of having increased spending on higher education and struck an expansionist note in calling for doubling student numbers over the next twenty-five years . |
| 3 | As to the neighbourhood which had hesitated to acknowledge the railroad in its straggling days , that had grown wise and penitent , as any Christian might in such a case , and now boasted of its powerful and prosperous relation . |
| 4 | After much thought , she had concluded that Western tastes meant toasted sandwiches , so every meal now consisted of toasted sandwiches . |
| 5 | The remaining lump now consisted of the crankcase , blacks , heads , inlet manifolds and fuel trunk . |
| 6 | Once disbanded , then opened up again with two officers , it now consisted of eight men and all of them overworked . |
| 7 | Home now consisted of only two rooms and a kitchen , but fortunately we were allowed half of the attractive garden as well . |
| 8 | After much effort , she put the sentence together which the book now consisted of : We have fled before them . |
| 9 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 10 | On the eve of the congress two political groups described as being on the right of the revolutionary spectrum , the National Convention of Progressive Patriots ( CNPP ) and the Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina ( UDPB ) , were allowed to join the Front , which now consisted of four national unions and seven political groups . |
| 11 | ( This grouping now consisted of the PK — as successor to the FPD — together with the Peasant Christian Alliance and the Christian Democrat Party , both of the latter being members of the government coalition . ) |
| 12 | But lunch now consisted of cottage cheese , salad and two crispbreads . |
| 13 | As he preceded what he now thought of as a mythical being down to the canteen , he thought about how he 'd once found the sight of Zambia 's adjustments repulsive and unnatural . |
| 14 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 15 | Margaret had admitted Dickie liked him ; I now thought of him as part of the family ; Margaret herself had lowered her resistance enough to take his advice . |
| 16 | Yet she also knew that if she had succumbed to her longing she would not have been satisfied , knowing what she now knew of the terrible difficulties of love . |
| 17 | One faction was led by a young radical senator , Dan Iosif , who had participated in the demonstrations which toppled Ceausescu , and who now spoke of the " total collapse of the Front " . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Magistrate had ordered the native pensioners to collect up the vernacular records and documents which lay in shallow drifts in the new trenches … all that now remained of the experimental greenhouse in which he had observed the progress and ubiquity of the Company 's stupidity . |
| 19 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 20 | All that now remained of the Hôtel was a couple of tall stone gateposts some thirty feet apart . |
| 21 | Now denuded of Tosh & Bunny Wailer , Marley was supported by the experienced but deliberately chanty female trio the I-Threes . |
| 22 | The words blazed from lips now denuded of artificial colour , their natural flush wrought by the man — the enemy — she confronted , but she made herself be silent when they were said . |
| 23 | For on it lay the prickly pears he had picked for her earlier , now denuded of their spikes and cut into quarters . |