Example sentences of "now [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nkrumah now asked for a constitutional adviser to be sent from England . |
| 2 | They sat drinking , perched on the wonky stools , as outside the non-customers , now excluded for ever , stalked past on the wet , dark pavement . |
| 3 | Duncan , the son presented to the English king as hostage some twenty years earlier , now appealed for William II 's help in return for a promise of fealty . |
| 4 | On top of this military expenditure , the government had to find the cost of Edward IV 's funeral ( £1,886 ) and the cost of Edward V 's coronation , now rescheduled for 22 June . |
| 5 | On top of this military expenditure , the government had to find the cost of Edward IV 's funeral ( £1,886 ) and the cost of Edward V 's coronation , now rescheduled for 22 June . |
| 6 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 7 | The Board believes that the increased marketing expenditure now budgeted for strengthening the Waterford brands will contribute to profitable growth in this business . |
| 8 | Apart from organising his domestic life , Stella Pullman was a disciplinarian in the old British landlady tradition ( her husband was a former RAF pilot who now flew for BOAC ) . |
| 9 | The Germans had shifted their position since the writing of the Delors Report : where they had previously wanted ‘ binding rules ’ for budget deficits , they now called for ‘ sanctions ’ to be available to the Community as a means of enforcing the bank 's decisions on recalcitrant member states . |
| 10 | Corporal Wix was the retired soldier who now worked for General Francis . |
| 11 | Both had left after arguments with the firm 's owner and they now worked for Tommy Hatcher in Long Lane . |
| 12 | He now worked for the Water Board as a clerical officer . |
| 13 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |
| 14 | The residents now took for granted the shuffling queue outside Mr Rowse 's surgery , or temple . |
| 15 | They now lay for ever dead . |
| 16 | It would have been defeat over what I now knew for certain was a perfectly reasonable and legal procedure which I would have found hard to handle . |
| 17 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 18 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 19 | The prisoners of war had left the fields and there were different people who now gathered for elevenses round the kitchen range . |
| 20 | To the delight of the sober-suited committeemen and the pie-eyed slobs on the other side of the ground alike , no England wicket now fell for almost four hours . |
| 21 | Wei Feng now spoke for them all . |
| 22 | No way of retreat , and no safe base , now remained for the remaining Spaniards and their Scottish allies . |
| 23 | According to C.-in-C. of CIS Armed Forces Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , it now remained for Ukraine to recognize Russia 's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons located on its territory , and he called for a Russian-Ukrainian summit to discuss the issue . |
| 24 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 25 | Ximena was seen as representing the former , while Rodrigo , who had formally renounced his rights as a Castilian noble , now stood for Leon . |