Example sentences of "he now [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now had a young man 's moustache and beard . |
| 2 | He now had a whole-time chaplain . |
| 3 | In spite of the fact that he had let her down badly and most devastating of all , even though he now had a new love — Beth still pined for him . |
| 4 | At any rate , he now had a little breathing space . |
| 5 | For him , a heavy smoker , this was manna sent from heaven : he now had a large supply to keep him going . |
| 6 | President Carlos Saúl Menem , whose popularity had waned in July due to financial scandals involving his relatives and political aides [ see p. 38335 ] , stated that he now had a national mandate to seek the widest political consensus to deepen the government 's economic programme . |
| 7 | But modern technology now makes perfect repair work possible , so Leonard came back even though he now had a lucrative television career and had astutely invested his fortune . |
| 8 | said he now had a clear understanding that International was a large professional organisation with a product range tested to the highest level . |
| 9 | He now had a fair copy and could slip the letters back unremarked into the London Library Vico . |
| 10 | He now launches a parallel attack on the idea that individuals are by nature the sort of creatures who can come to know things through their experience of the external world . |
| 11 | His family said yesterday : ‘ He now undertakes a full programme of speech and occupational therapy . |
| 12 | From this pale and anaemic-looking girl who had once thought only of turning the heads of young officers , and whom the Collector had considered insipid , he now saw a young woman of inflexible willpower emerging . |
| 13 | Though he had lived for weeks for this hour he now felt a wild surge of resentment towards McQuaid as he came into his own house . |
| 14 | His wife Doreen runs a 1965 Morris 1100 , and he now has a 1962 M.G. 1100 Mark I ready for restoration . |
| 15 | He now earns a guaranteed series of a concerts and special promotion by the Young Concert Artists Trust . |
| 16 | He now works a lay minister visiting patients in nursing homes in Barnard Castle and Darlington , although suffering from chronic spinal pains . |
| 17 | Educated at Cambridge and an early ‘ brain drain ’ graduate , having emigrated to the US in 1964 , he now holds a long list of academic honours in the US . |
| 18 | He now leads a busy life as an honorary chaplain in York Minster . |
| 19 | On Jan. 26 a single-paragraph statement by Mandela , dated Jan. 25 and reaffirming support for the ANC 's policy of nationalizing the " mines , banks and monopoly industries " , was released to refute rumours that he now favoured a mixed economy . |
| 20 | In September 1929 , at the princely salary of five shillings a week , he started work as a junior reporter on the paper for which , 64 years on , he now writes a weekly column . |
| 21 | Dumouriez was , like so many Frenchmen , fascinated by the idea of humbling the hitherto unvanquished islanders , and he now undertook a thorough study of the reasons why past attempts had invariably failed . |
| 22 | He now looks a good bet to go through to the next stage of the competition tomorrow . |