Example sentences of "[was/were] now [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something clearly had to be done , and done quickly , for the ramparts were now diminishing at a steady rate the longer the rain lasted , the more quickly the ramparts melted . |
| 2 | Spanish and Norwegian skippers were now looking at the possibilities such unusual fish offered . |
| 3 | Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better . |
| 4 | Half way across the field to the ditch where a jeep was now straining at a rope attached to the emerging car , the Substitute lit on a possible solution . |
| 5 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 6 | Janine was now sitting at the kitchen table smoking a cigarette . |
| 7 | Instead of breathing heavily into her new hair-style and biting her ear lobe he was now staring at an advert for deodorant with a grim expression . |
| 8 | The latter was now staring at the Van Gogh boats and the milky sea and sky through poppy-scarlet lenses , which Frederica thought was perverse , although she wished she had the courage to ask for a moment to put them on , to see all this . |