Example sentences of "he was now [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 2 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 3 | He was now ready to stand beside his brother in the heat of battle . |
| 4 | He sat back and folded his arms , giving me the impression that he was now ready to get down to some serious talking . |
| 5 | What he was now unable to do , the ‘ Beat ’ poets fulfilled , in their own bohemian street-style in New York . |
| 6 | A condition of the Daily Mail prize was that no serving pilot could win it , and so on March 10 , 1919 Jack was demobbed , ending his service career with the rank of Captain , he was now free to pursue this latest flying challenge . |
| 7 | Kerry Court that he was now prepared to allow himself to be sent back . |
| 8 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 9 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 10 | During his visit to the USA Chissano expressed confidence that an end to the war with the right-wing rebel group , the Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR ) was within sight , declaring that he was now prepared to enter into direct talks with the rebels . |
| 11 | When asked by an interviewer if he was pleased with the performance of the British plants , the President had replied that although past performance had been bad by traditional British standards , he was now happy to say that in recent months a marked improvement had taken place . |
| 12 | A hot bath , followed by a cold shower worked wonders for his circulation , and he was now able to move more freely , though still with a pronounced limp . |
| 13 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 14 | Above all he was now able to prepare and publish the Prayer Book of 1549 and its revised version of 1552 . |
| 15 | He was now able to pursue his interest in book illustration and gave work to Edward Bawden , Robert Medley , Humphrey Spender , Edward Burra , Ayrton , Vaughan and Searle among others . |
| 16 | He was now able to pursue his appreciation and devotion to metallurgy , which had been first inspired by his mechanical engineering studies at Mason College . |
| 17 | At a by-election he was reelected and indicated that he was now willing to take the requisite oath . |
| 18 | He was now likely to want the prominent Anglo-Catholic bishop . |
| 19 | He knew that he was now powerless to influence the way they would vote . |