Example sentences of "[prep] now [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Instead of now referring to the child as something for us to share , Sarah started saying it was hers . |
2 | And we 're now now walking round the back and er sort of now pointing towards the Arms . |
3 | The men it was meant for now rush into the road in front of her , one of them vaulting straight over the taxi bonnet as Rainbow bangs on the brakes . |
4 | Her wrists were by now fastened to the post , and she was helpless . |
5 | Did Green want to be news editor ? asked Marcuson , by now eased into the editor 's chair . |
6 | We were by now seated in the Happy Diner , and I was still rather amazed that I could face a bacon sandwich . |
7 | By now plans for the building of a new church were in preparation . |
8 | He looked around for an implement to use and although his eyes were by now accustomed to the gloom he could see nothing suitable . |
9 | Poor old man , she thought , having by now recovered from the shock of his appearance ; he was so ill that one could n't mind what he said or did . |
10 | A good linen and yarn market was by now held in the town every Saturday , having been established in 1762 . |
11 | The gardener , an honest youth of little imagination who was by now enchanted by the whole affair , remembered that the taste of strawberries was improved by setting them on a cabbage leaf , and strode down to the brassica beds to cut a broad green plate for the feast . |
12 | The first sentence of Hartley 's The Go-Between ( 1953 ) , which appeared when its author was nearly sixty , has by now entered into the valhalla of literary allusion : |
13 | Lewis had by now settled into the role of tutor , but he did not relax in it . |