Example sentences of "[pron] now [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now live in a new house which has as much character as either of my previous homes — but without the rising damp and woodworm . |
| 2 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 3 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 4 | Among the vanquished was the master chimney-sweeper , whilom incredulous at Stagg 's Gardens , who now lived in a stuccoed house three storeys high , and gave himself out , with golden flourishes upon a varnished board , as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery . |
| 5 | Those gruesome robots which had restrained the trio — and the Astropath — reminded Jaq so strongly of images he had viewed of traitor legionnaires , the polluted renegades spawned by the would-be Emperor-slayers of long ago who now lurked in a certain terrible , twisted zone of the galaxy … |
| 6 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 7 | ‘ A tall , grizzle-haired fellow who now walks with a pronounced limp . |
| 8 | And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home . |
| 9 | She now teaches at a local girls ' school where she finds the all-female staff ‘ extremely supportive of each other ’ . |
| 10 | We now come to a second way in which inductivism is undermined . |
| 11 | HAVING considered the tort of nuisance , we now turn to a further tort which had its origins in nuisance but which has developed in such a way that it is now quite distinct from it . |
| 12 | By 1920 , 7 million workers had gained an average six and a half hour reduction in the working week — the equivalent , almost , of what we now see as a full day 's work . |
| 13 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 14 | We now understand in a general way how strong any particular solid ought to be and why it falls short of that strength in practice . |
| 15 | We now live in a global village … a simultaneous happening . |
| 16 | In a sense we now live in a forgiven world . |
| 17 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 18 | They now worship at a new hall , but the pastor admits that many older villagers miss the little chapel . |
| 19 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
| 20 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 21 | They got married and they now live in a beautiful flat in the centre of London . ’ |
| 22 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 23 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 24 | His blackness he now regards as a personal stabilizer rather than a means for rejecting society . |
| 25 | He now lives in a flat a little further uptown with his Japanese girlfriend . |
| 26 | He now works as a general freelance feature writer for the Guardian , Independent on Sunday and Arena among others and has published several books including a biography of Prince . |
| 27 | My father provided Maurice with a capital sum and leased him the property he now occupies at a nominal rental . ’ |
| 28 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 29 | The car has also become a huge hit with millions of visitors to the world-famous Universal Studios in Florida , where it now features as a popular ride based on the Spielberg films . |
| 30 | It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis , with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility . |