Example sentences of "now [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are shoppers now expected to hover over the vegetable counter at the supermarket , stricken with anxiety trying to remember which greens cause cancer and which do not ? |
| 2 | And the smell , which at first had been tentative , elusive , no more than an alien tincture on the air , now seemed to seep into the passage with the strong effluvium of death . |
| 3 | Conflicting signals now began to emerge from the Commission . |
| 4 | The striped shirt man now began to talk about the portfolio . |
| 5 | He argued that the economic , political , ethical , legal , aesthetic , and erotic value spheres , which previously had been structured according to a unifying principle of the world religions and later of Enlightenment rationalism , now began to march to the beat of different drums ( Whimster and Lash 1987 ) . |
| 6 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 7 | Having cleared the field of Vulgrin 's troops Richard now intended to strike at the Taillefer castles , presumably accepting the fact that this would drive Vulgrin 's father , Count William , to take his son 's part . |