Example sentences of "[conj] now [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 2 | And now for a cup of tea , she thought , stepping out to wind a large bath towel around her nakedness . |
| 3 | Their chief designer was Maurice Philippe , designer of the Lotus 72 then , and now for a number of years Ken Tyrrell 's designer . |
| 4 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 5 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 6 | As Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) puts it , ‘ A feeling can be conveyed more than once when a person , having ceased to ‘ suffer it ’ , and now at a distance studying it , comes to define its essential form ’ ( p. 112 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We should make it in three or four days , if we 're lucky , if we leave tomorrow , ’ Travis finished , recalling her to the here and now with a start . |
| 8 | In 1983 , at the time of the introduction of the new Mental Health Act , seen then and now as a breakthrough for patients ' rights , users were barely involved in the mental health debate . |
| 9 | ‘ As a footballer , my ambition was to play next week , and now as a manager , where the average expectancy is two-and-a-half years , it is to manage a winning team next week . |
| 10 | The gentle green-suited elephant is everywhere — on dressing gowns , duvet covers , nappies , plates , carpets , soft drinks , television and now in a feature film , ‘ Le Triomphe de Babar ’ , which had its world première in Paris last week . |
| 11 | If any readers want to learn more about MacDonald , I would urge them to read William Raeper 's splendid biography of the great Victorian visionary , published as recently as 1987 , and now in a paperback edition . |
| 12 | Of course there is also pantomime and now in a museum ! |
| 13 | A southern Italian , he had taught up until now in a village near Naples and could not speak a word either of Slovene or of Triestino . |
| 14 | Barbara Goodwin , who after reading P.P.E. , obtained her D.Phil at St. Antony 's , is also still in her original post , but now as a Reader , in the Department of Government at Brunel University . |
| 15 | A famous lintel example is the Porta Saracena at Segni , originally part of the city wall , but now about a mile outside the modern town up on the steep hillside . |
| 16 | But now with a look at the weekend 's sport , here 's Tim Russon . |
| 17 | But now with a look at the weekend 's sport , here 's Tim Russon . |
| 18 | The Whigs , the party of reform , were back in office , but now with a promise from the King to create as many peers as might be needed to secure the passage of their Bill . |
| 19 | This will give you additional practice of the sounds , but now in a context , e.g. : secondly , put the sounds you are practising in the frame , and substitute elsewhere , so that you do n't concentrate any more on the difficult contrast . |
| 20 | Her body was still fragrant from her earlier bath , but now in a frenzy of haste she was desperate to rinse it off — all of it : the perfume and the caresses — ashes of a fire with which she had stupidly played . |