Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 2 | The strategy that Freeman is following is similar to that of classical structuralism ( e.g. Lévi-Strauss 1963 ) now melded into a Lakoffian brand of cognitivism . |
| 3 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 4 | The woman , identified as Roberta Jones , is now listed in a serious condition on Sunday night at Harbourview Medical Centre , according to the hospital 's nursing supervisor . |
| 5 | The ability of the modem to translate signals makes the information services market we have today a possibility … information publishers must now prepare for a new challenge and for a similar degree of networking capacity for video and other multimedia as they currently experience for data … ’ |
| 6 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 7 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 8 | That quality has now developed into a tremendous presence . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |
| 10 | Perhaps this has now developed as a whole group drama , with the children playing the townspeople of Hamelin . |
| 11 | In reality , though this was not generally known , Verdun was now guarded by a single line of trenches — and a single line could be penetrated by the enemy with relative ease , whereas two could not . |
| 12 | the idea has now blossomed into a successful mail order business with customers from both the UK and overseas . |
| 13 | Among the vanquished was the master chimney-sweeper , whilom incredulous at Stagg 's Gardens , who now lived in a stuccoed house three storeys high , and gave himself out , with golden flourishes upon a varnished board , as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery . |
| 14 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 15 | We have made real progress in developing our non-oil related businesses where sales now account for a good proportion of the Group 's turnover |
| 16 | Publisher 's themed series now account for a significant part of the market , but are too many thought up by designers and marketing departments rather than horticulturalists ? |
| 17 | The traditional political " families " still vied with each other in pursuance of their particular objectives ; but the old clans of Catholics , monarchists and Falangists were now joined by a new breed of apolitical technocrat and a new kind of Falangist . |
| 18 | The new latrine now situated in a quiet corner of the orchard has been given a permanent status ; a shithouse clerk has been appointed . |
| 19 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |
| 20 | Nkrumah now asked for a constitutional adviser to be sent from England . |
| 21 | The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon , wife of a driving instructor . |
| 22 | Corbett nodded , smiled his thanks and went over to where Alexander now slouched in a half-drunken stupor . |
| 23 | Central to Thorngumbald was the blacksmith 's shop , hub of working activity for a large area , now rebuilt as a modern garage but still owned by the fourth generation of Willinghams . |
| 24 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 25 | It is now owned by a civic trust , and the royal Lyceum Theatre Company has established a high reputation for its enterprising productions . |
| 26 | The wreckage of the gantry now lies in a dry dock . |
| 27 | It will include a tour of the White House , arranged with the help of President Bush — whom Joe now counts as a personal friend — and visits to New York , Disneyland , Universal Studios in Hollywood , and finally the New Year 's Day Parade in the Pasadena Rose Bowl , California . |
| 28 | And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home . |
| 29 | The updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 30 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |