Example sentences of "now [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ . |
| 2 | Dissanayake had competed with Premadasa for the ruling United National Party 's nomination as presidential candidate in 1988 ( as had Lalith Athulathmudali , now transferred from Agriculture to Education ) , and had subsequently differed with the President on such issues as the handling of the withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka . |
| 3 | John Gummer , now shifted from agriculture to environment , has been around too long , but is an old chum of the prime minister . |
| 4 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 5 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 6 | The mixture of sounds and ideas comes from Fyfe 's vehement defence of dance music , now moving from techno to Consolidated ; Michael 's travelling CD collection , which finds Carcass nestling next to House Of Pain ; and Andy 's belief in a belligerent guitar sound , tempered with tunes ( a throwback in part to his early teen encounters with punk and new wave ) . |
| 7 | Many railways also have collections of historic coaches , freight wagons and other equipment and use the semaphore signals , most of which have now disappeared from use on the modern rail network . |
| 8 | All the yards now employ from order to order with minimal ‘ retained ’ work forces . |
| 9 | Otto 's house was now concealed from view behind groves of sombre cypresses . |
| 10 | Within each section of the company workers were now rotated from job to job automatically , regularly , and compulsorily , and this system covered a range of levels , not just the most de-skilled of the jobs . |
| 11 | As a result of this rule , and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns , the motor industry 's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth . |