Example sentences of "now they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they sell themselves to be photographed . |
| 2 | The central section of the courtyard of the Alte post had been set with a three-sided arrangement of trestle tables for a party of thirty and now they began to arrive . |
| 3 | Now they began to fear him . |
| 4 | For years , he and Hank had exchanged only a few words , but now they began to talk , drawn together by the magic of money ; and Hank was surprised and flattered to find that the elder man was entranced by his sudden success . |
| 5 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 6 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 7 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 8 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 9 | Now they come second , but I 'll admit it 's a close second . ’ |
| 10 | Now they come to the Chalet Proment at Planpincieux . |
| 11 | By now they knew that we were slightly mad and waved us through . |
| 12 | And by now they knew she was not . |
| 13 | But now they knew it for what it was . |
| 14 | Now they knew where they were going . |
| 15 | Now they knew that the women had been right , Jesus had indeed risen from the dead . |
| 16 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 17 | His spies had plotted their course all the way , sending back word by a chain of messengers , until now they knew numbers and names , and were well aware that what they awaited was a national army , glittering with noble pedigrees , not all of them Scottish . |
| 18 | Furious , Dr Dunstaple now seemed on the point of turning on the Padre and mowing the wiry cleric down with his fists , but by this time Louise and Mrs Dunstaple had hastened to his side and now they dragged him away , hushing him desperately . |
| 19 | Now they feign co-operation with the adventurers in the hope of slaying them and feasting on their blood . |
| 20 | Now they hold tens of thousands . |
| 21 | Just now they had been utterly careless about the noise they made in the hay . |
| 22 | Perhaps by now they had been totally cowed . ) |
| 23 | I went up to Scotland where by now they had dug the hole for this second plant and it looked absolutely enormous . |
| 24 | Wexford certainly was n't going to embark on a sabbath day 's journey to Sewingbury , and now they had mucked up the Kingsbrook Road with those flats , there was no longer any point in going there . |
| 25 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 26 | Neither admitted to the other that each was tortured by fear : now they had more than ever to lose . |
| 27 | They had lost precious seconds ; now they had none left to spare . |
| 28 | But now they had to wait until , as the advertising put it , ‘ The Bay Calls the Day ’ . |
| 29 | And now they had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes . |
| 30 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |