Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] now [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 2 | The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him . |
| 3 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 4 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 5 | All the optimism of the summer had evaporated , and we now faced another winter and Christmas without our families in this cold hole in the ground . |
| 6 | Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity . |
| 7 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 8 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 9 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 10 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 11 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 12 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |