Example sentences of "now [verb] to 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 house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon , wife of a driving instructor . |
| 3 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 4 | ‘ We are now committed to a permanent merry-go-round for the European Parliament at a huge cost in terms of cash and efficiency , ’ said Mr Peter Price , Euro MP for London South-East . |
| 5 | One of the detectives in charge of the inquiry , Det Insp Ray Wareham said the hunt had now moved to a new location . |
| 6 | Nick 's mother , Marilyn who 's campaigned vigourously for his release , says her son has now moved to a neighbouring state in Western India because he 's fearful of repercussions . |
| 7 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 8 | Such observations have given rise to the notion of the ‘ invulnerable child ’ and are now leading to a radical re-appraisal of the results of risk research , with a shift of emphasis towards trying to understand the factors that enable some individuals to survive , or even profit from , their disposition to insanity . |
| 9 | Grudgingly the British now agreed to a joint expedition , but they were determined to launch it on their own terms , which were quite different from de Gaulle 's . |
| 10 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |
| 11 | With the polls now pointing to a Labour minority government , the question of PR can no longer be treated as an academic abstraction . |
| 12 | Former Governor Jerry Brown of California is now reduced to a spoiling game . |
| 13 | First among them has to be Hugh Laurie 's facial interpretation of Bertie , now brought to a fine pitch of eye-popping , open-mouthed imbecility . |
| 14 | Some of these creatures now grew to a considerable size , 60 centimetres or so . |
| 15 | The former school building is now converted to a lovely house . |
| 16 | KC ‘ What worried me most er at the beginning and now the treat … and now fading to a great degree , was the extraordinary presence of another absence er of another kind of speaking . |
| 17 | There was the weighted velvet curtain that had once hung in the Star Theatre , now fixed to a huge rod with rings so large that Frankie could slip them over his arms like bangles . |
| 18 | The row over the 4p increase has now led to a public inquiry . |
| 19 | Using a long remote release cable and an autowinder to expose and wind the film , one can now retire to a safe distance , leaving the fish to spawn undisturbed . |
| 20 | But the people of Princes Risborough can now point to a permanent reminder of a man they have never forgotten . |
| 21 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 22 | To the chair reasons for my concern here and reason for my asking her whether she will now agree to a full investigation of this service at to be conducted by councillors and for the council to be satisfied that the service can be put right . |
| 23 | So perhaps she was , after all , like darling Mutti ( now married to a Hungarian doctor and living an extremely respectable old age in Budapest ) . |