Example sentences of "[was/were] now [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 2 | The night before his death I had bought a big bunch of red carnations to put in my room with the lighted candles we were now writing by , to please Dana . |
| 3 | Will and I were now living in very fine lodgings in Silver Street , with the Mountjoy family . |
| 4 | As I climbed out of the trench I glanced to right and left ; other Commandos were now scrambling out of their trenches . |
| 5 | She slipped her arm through mine , I picked up my rifle from the corner near to the band , who were now packing up their instruments . |
| 6 | For Youth Allyah , who were now sending over more children on transit visas , foster homes , even orthodox foster homes , could not inspire the full-blooded commitment to a pioneering life in Palestine . |
| 7 | As friends were now pointing out , that could only be good news . |
| 8 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 9 | The ascent had now become so steep , it seemed as though he were now swimming up through the darkness , which was thickening and growing viscous . |
| 10 | After playing their parts in a fruitless search of the Butcher Building , Dee and Kelley were now dining out at the Drowning Handbag , an up-market eatery in the best part of town . |
| 11 | The beetles were now standing around in pairs , each pair holding a length of string , a piece of chalk , and a tape measure . |
| 12 | Yanto had picked him up from his home ten minutes before , and they were now racing down the A38 towards Bristol on their first outing on the bike . |
| 13 | It was all those problems , and a few more , that were now fouling up the North Sea and other parts of Britain . |
| 14 | They were now walking along a narrow lane that was no more than a rutted cart-track . |
| 15 | They were now walking along together as it was too cold to stand about . |
| 16 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 17 | They were now sitting up , most of them . |
| 18 | The benefits of North Sea oil were now coming through strongly . |
| 19 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 20 | However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them . |
| 21 | If anything , he was worse after the break ; even the words he had remembered the week before were now coming out jumbled and confused . |
| 22 | Once the security of the industry was assured there was every incentive for the comedians to experiment , for comedy relied on movement , gesture , and illusion whilst photography and editing were now opening up all kinds of new possibilities . |
| 23 | Clearly the movies now felt that they could look the reformers of the early twentieth century firmly in the eye and the film-industry boosters were now giving back as good as they were given . |
| 24 | The wolf had cornered his prey and was now moving in for the kill . |
| 25 | Tabitha , who had all the beauty and arrogance of her father , was now gouging out the centre of Sukey 's home-made fruitcake with both hands . |
| 26 | Nor did he tell him that a German was now packing up his quarters , having refused to work another day . |
| 27 | She was now leaning over towards him and breathing very close to his ear . |
| 28 | He was now leaning back in his chair , having completed his own frugal meal , contemplating her while she polished off the final remains of her own large one . |
| 29 | Some felt Mrs Thatcher was now denationalizing out of dogma , without making out a case on managerial or cost grounds . |
| 30 | Soon , below them , they began to smell the revolting hot stench of the Gruncher 's breath , and the orange-red smoke was now billowing up into the lower branches in thick clouds . |