Example sentences of "was now [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wolf had cornered his prey and was now moving in for the kill . |
| 2 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |
| 3 | Soon , below them , they began to smell the revolting hot stench of the Gruncher 's breath , and the orange-red smoke was now billowing up into the lower branches in thick clouds . |
| 4 | Mark was now speaking out with a vengeance . |
| 5 | Grégoire was now hemmed in by the tiny precarious wine table . |
| 6 | However , this was now slowing down as the asset value and employment value of the farm was appreciated — a situation that compared with Orkney and North Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Abercrombie 's broad-brush strategy was now filled in with the complementary prescriptions for design at the local scale , both central areas and residential districts . |
| 8 | Duke Berthold of Zähringen was now put up as the candidate of the Welfs because he appeared a man of means and was well known for his hostility to the Staufer . |
| 9 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 10 | What remained of the gardens was now given over to the university 's botany department , and so the building had been able to retain much of its outward character . |
| 11 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 12 | The sun was now shining out of a cloudless sky as they removed their shirts and allowed the sunlight to bathe their pale bodies . |
| 13 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 14 | The wind was now veering round towards the stern quarter and increasing so that 4th-placed Herst/Stafford of Canada in the second semi capsized 20m from the line and lost their final place . |
| 15 | It was now creeping over to the edge of the escarpment . |
| 16 | Apart from the porter , who was now heading back to a door marked Waiting Room , the platform was bare . |
| 17 | He was now heading back in the direction of New York City , by circling the perimeter of the vast estate . |
| 18 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 19 | A contract may be a contract , but Branson was now coming round to the belated realisation that a suitable gesture to Oldfield much earlier on in his career — increasing his royalty rate after Tubular Bells , for example — could have prevented all this ugliness . |