Example sentences of "[coord] now [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Harper had rescued the cold carcass of a roast chicken from the Prince 's interrupted lunch , and now tossed Sharpe a leg .
2 The new offence becomes the occasion for another and now legitimized act of retribution .
3 He had been a keen sportsman in his youth , and now followed cricket avidly .
4 For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal .
5 Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex .
6 We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands .
7 Deep in him lay a hard logic , which had resisted the Church , and now resisted Tess .
8 But a Conservative spokeswoman denied a Guardian claim that the party could not clear its estimated £14m deficit , and now faced bankruptcy .
9 Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him .
10 Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest .
11 she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation .
12 Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories .
13 Stefanos Manos remained at the National Economy Ministry , but now assumed responsibility for Finance also , in a move to facilitate the process of economic reform .
14 In a short period of time , they had raised the cost of the building , including contributions from Queen Victoria herself , but now needed money to purchase a prime site in the centre of Glasgow .
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