Example sentences of "had now [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 2 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 3 | We wanted very much to ask Eliot round before departure , especially as we had now moved to a bigger flat . |
| 4 | One of the detectives in charge of the inquiry , Det Insp Ray Wareham said the hunt had now moved to a new location . |
| 5 | Of the other three , one had been revenge , one an escapade , and one half serious , but all had now merged into a sentimental distance , an affectionate presence . |
| 6 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 7 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
| 8 | The conditions were primitive — no electricity or running water — and in a way it was a continuation of the life we had led on Lewis , except that the extended family had now shrunk to a nuclear and very isolated one . |