Example sentences of "[adv] now [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Harry was no longer looking at him , but felt sure he had leaned forward across his desk , as if their discussion were only now taking the desired direction .
2 The reaction to female ministers is a prime example of how the Church is only now entering the 20th Century kicking and screaming .
3 Arthit Kamlang-ek , an influential former Supreme Commander of Armed Forces and Army C.-in-C. , had since May 1988 been leader of the Thai People party , whose 17 members had voted with the government in the July no-confidence motion , and which thus now joined the ruling coalition .
4 I looked up just now to acknowledge the Hon. Member for Dumfries , but , of course , it was a futile gesture because once again , there is not a solitary Conservative Member of the Standing Committee present other than the Minister and the Whip .
5 May I express my satisfaction that the Prime Minister does not now take the reluctant attitude towards the establishment of a rouble stabilisation fund that he did in July and August last year when I put that proposal to him ?
6 What makes it appropriate right now to recognise the great promise of the Orbital engine is Ford 's bold decision to manufacture 60 prototype two-stroke Fiestas and lend some of them to high-mileage users .
7 The volumes published so far now bear the collective imprint of Lund Humphries ( the publishers of Moore 's catalogue ) , who provide three handsome slipcases for purchasers of the complete set : but the enterprise is by no means finished , as work continues to pour out of Caro 's Camden Town studio .
8 The River Otter , Coleridge 's ‘ dear native brook ’ , borders the town to the west , and makes its leisurely way through a landscape which to eighteenth-century inhabitants seemed ‘ the richest finest Country in the world ’ , and which even now preserves the striking beauty which so impressed itself on Coleridge 's young mind .
9 An officer from the gendarmerie was even now interrogating the accused person .
10 As this message is proclaimed and accepted , God 's rule is present and we can even now glimpse the future glory ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:54 ) .
11 I mean , that I known , these people down here now have the old dredger what they got here now .
12 Old Moor Street station closed and all trains previously running there now use the new station .
13 There now ensues the nagging doubt that so often accompanies the crux of the climb ; it 's all very well getting this far , but until those crucial moves are made it could all still come to nought .
14 Then Now form the scalar product The right-hand side vanishes , since all terms such as are identically zero , the other terms occur in pairs and is antisymmetric .
15 So why now did the very fact that he was awake and talking to her seem like an invasion of her privacy ?
16 Ahead now reared the dark mass of the main keep of the establishment , wherein would surely be found Balliol and his close associates .
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