Example sentences of "now [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were now gathered around a large rock , on which stood a rather ordinary looking , dark haired , middle-aged man . |
| 2 | Now pick up the important ones , sort out your priorities . |
| 3 | Three Englishmen ventured north , bought into , and are now building up the 200-year-old Scottish printer Pillans & Wilson . |
| 4 | In the dim upper reaches of the roof , she could now make out a cylindrical object with a dulled metallic glint . |
| 5 | The light gradually faded , allowing a clearer view of the craft — Bash could now make out a thin outline , a panel or … a door ! |
| 6 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 7 | Aldercine 's Active Retirement Club at Luton Regional Sports Centre now number over a hundred on the register — almost half are men ! |
| 8 | I now led out a further Club taken by the Ace in the West seat . |
| 9 | In a more romantic mode , it is as though a thousand lone voices have suddenly and unexpectedly found common cause in one majestic chorus , which is now drowning out the discordant notes heard from beyond the main stage . |
| 10 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 11 | Congress , we are now enjoying probably the best legal protection ever to safeguard our health and safety at work . |
| 12 | We can now consider individually the different methods of incorporation . |
| 13 | Those lips , which had so recently roved over Jaq 's body , now sucked in the slithery tough stuff of the hydra with the same seeming hunger . |
| 14 | These now crashed out a defiant discharge . |
| 15 | Seventy years later the Pentecostals of Chile , now numbering over a million , regularly meet for their vigilias — their nights of prayer . |
| 16 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 17 | They were now walking along a narrow lane that was no more than a rutted cart-track . |
| 18 | Chris bumped his head again while snorkelling and now has rather an impressive bandage ! |
| 19 | They are now second to the Conservatives in 145 seats ( against Labour 's 186 ) ; but while 90 per cent of Lib Dem second places are in seats with massive Tory majorities , mainly in the south-east , Labour now has double the Liberal Democrat popular vote and is lying second in 144 seats where the Tory lead is less than 4,000 votes . |
| 20 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 21 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 22 | Yesterday 's sales mean that Hanson now has virtually no net debt . |
| 23 | Trinidad , which now has around a million inhabitants , has also produced far more than its fair share , and it is interesting to note the differences between the two . |
| 24 | The walk 's last leg follows the embankment of the world 's first electric road-railway , which used to take Victorian tourists from Portrush to the Giant 's Causeway but now covers only the easy descent into Portballintrae . |
| 25 | Seven years after losing her sight Philippa now holds down a full-time job . |
| 26 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 27 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 28 | The Somerset landscape has been dissolved in darkness , and the mysterious forces of nature , normally sought by Coleridge high in the Quantocks , or in the dell at Alfoxden , now wash over the sleeping town and reach to the very door of his cottage . |
| 29 | The trees thinned to reveal what once might have been a clearing but which now resembled only a poisonous-looking wilderness . |
| 30 | We now walk along a covered way called the Ride , designed for exercising Infirmary Patients , and also for testing for freedom from disease or otherwise of the Respiratory Organs of horses prior to purchase . |