Example sentences of "[noun sg] now [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This last reflection — it was Nova Scotia , he was pretty sure — seemed to tidy up the whole matter , which his mind now presented as a uniform interlocking structure , with working parts . |
2 | Her hair now fell in a glossy blonde swath about her ears , feathering back delicately from her face . |
3 | The poor man now lay in a great fourposter bed while the two old beldames clacked and muttered to themselves as they fastened splints to his leg and carefully washed his naked , bruised body . |
4 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
5 | Culture now coincided with a large economic region . |
6 | The face now shone with a dark and greedy malice . |