Example sentences of "was now [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of June , observers on the mainland of Sumatra reported that all the higher parts of Perboewetan had been blown away , and that a second eruption column was now rising from the centre of the island . |
| 2 | It was an irritant , no more — especially as Mary of Guise was now moving towards the culmination of her policy , the French marriage . |
| 3 | The Roman Empire was already split into eastern and western halves , but its growing impotence was now demonstrated by the inability of its imperial armies to deal with Attila independently — it was a warning that the Roman Empire in the west was almost dead . |
| 4 | She saw with disappointment that Rupert Stonebird was not among the little group that Sophia was now bringing into the room . |
| 5 | She had read law as an undergraduate and was now reading for the Bar . |
| 6 | After his success at Grassington Barratt was now presented with the task of shaping the Coniston Copper Mines into a viable entity . |
| 7 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
| 8 | Suddenly she realized that the bubble had disappeared and she was now gliding through the tunnel . |
| 9 | A Gate was now fixed at the entrance to the garden , which as a rule was kept locked — a necessary precaution . |
| 10 | I was now faced with the administration of a problem of almost mind-boggling complexity . |
| 11 | She was now seated on the ground , propped up against the wall of one of the grimy tenements they had been passing ; someone had brought water , and Dr Neil was gently wiping her face with his damp handkerchief . |
| 12 | Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better . |
| 13 | Her eyes had rarely left his face , although he was now tramping about the room , gesticulating as he talked . |
| 14 | He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder . |
| 15 | The directive had been unpublicized , and was only confirmed officially on Jan. 25 after the news had been leaked by the independent Interfax news agency ( which was now operating with the support of the Russian Federation government and Moscow city council after Gosteleradio had withdrawn its support in January — see p. 37972 ) . |
| 16 | He was now engaged to the sister of the chairman of the neighbouring branch . |
| 17 | Life had started dealing him aces again ; the joker with the twisted hands was now relegated to the bottom of the pack . |
| 18 | This was the status the Mighty Minogue was now enjoying in the Land of the Rising Sun . |
| 19 | He was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead for fifteen years ; in his own word he was " excommunicated " . |
| 20 | Lancaster was now joined by the king 's uncles the Earls of Rent and Norfolk and a group of lords who had lost lands in Scotland , chief amongst whom were Henry Beaumont , Thomas Wake of Liddel and David of Strathbogie , claimant to the earldom of Atholl . |
| 21 | I was now recognised as the food provider . |
| 22 | Central Asia was now regarded as the cradle of humanity , a view endorsed through into the 1930s by H. F. Osborn and other eminent paleontologists . |
| 23 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 24 | In the past week she had been arrested , charged with smuggling heroin , released on bail , learned how to sail a forty-foot yacht , and was now listening to the man she had fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with talk about his colleague 's connection with the most vicious and widespread criminal organisation in the world . |
| 25 | War was now declared between the Hohenzollern heir and his Chief-of-Staff . |
| 26 | French doors led into a room that had once been the guests ' lounge , but was now converted into the dining-room . |
| 27 | For one thing , too much was now riding on the project . |
| 28 | Rincewind found that he was now hanging onto the end of a tongue of bark and fibre , lengthening as it peeled away from the tree . |
| 29 | Brown felt that Nicaea was now descending into the chaos he felt inside himself , that had torn him apart since his wife 's death . |
| 30 | At the same time she acknowledged that she was now seen by the rest of the royal family as ‘ a problem ’ . |