Example sentences of "was now [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A Gate was now fixed at the entrance to the garden , which as a rule was kept locked — a necessary precaution .
2 Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better .
3 Half way across the field to the ditch where a jeep was now straining at a rope attached to the emerging car , the Substitute lit on a possible solution .
4 Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry .
5 Janine was now sitting at the kitchen table smoking a cigarette .
6 Now that was Now look at the vehicles coming the other way and there 's a car in front of the opposing lorry .
7 Instead of breathing heavily into her new hair-style and biting her ear lobe he was now staring at an advert for deodorant with a grim expression .
8 The latter was now staring at the Van Gogh boats and the milky sea and sky through poppy-scarlet lenses , which Frederica thought was perverse , although she wished she had the courage to ask for a moment to put them on , to see all this .
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