Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |
| 2 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 3 | Relatively few influential activists would now quarrel with the recognition that markets are an effective way of generating wealth and indicating consumer preferences . |
| 4 | Her wrists were by now fastened to the post , and she was helpless . |
| 5 | The steel stanchions will now disappear with the net supported by ropes and a pole . |
| 6 | Putting strands from each side into curl rags , she said , ‘ Now sit by the fire and brush the rest dry , while I collect the eggs . ’ |
| 7 | The chairs now sit in the corner of a bedroom by a window , bringing a touch of Continental elegance to an otherwise very English interior . |
| 8 | The loop is now formed around the bobbin case , and the thread drawn back through the needle by the take-up lever usually found on the front of the machine . |
| 9 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 23 was also sceptical of the Sunday Times report , claiming that it ran counter to the " general view in Damascus that it is the president 's son Basel al-Assad> who is now favoured for the succession " . |
| 10 | Their movement was direct and purposeful , quite unlike the earlier , haphazard approach of those who were now gathered in the ditch . |
| 11 | My mum and Mrs Quigley were now ritting on the arm of the sofa , their eyes glued to the screen , as Quigley paced around the room . |
| 12 | Safely buried , Osiris now arose from the grave to train his son Horus for the punishment of Seth . |
| 13 | That is a principle which is now honoured in the breach , most notably in the power extended to police officers to issue instructions to prevent an apprehended breach of the peace , a power which apparently is subject to very little effective judicial scrutiny or control . |
| 14 | Inland is the great lowland plain of the Levels — once a marshy sea but now drained by the ruler — straight ‘ rhynes ’ . |
| 15 | By 1980 , recombinant-DNA had declined as a burning public issue in the US and the character of remaining concern , now limited to the cognoscente , had shifted . |
| 16 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 17 | Whether or not the Commission had now fallen under the influence of the CEGB , it seemed taken by surprise when the Scottish Friends of the Earth invited Dr Joachim Puhe from Professor Ulrich 's team at Gottingen University to survey British sites ‘ likely ’ to show forest decline . |
| 18 | Central Asia was now regarded as the cradle of humanity , a view endorsed through into the 1930s by H. F. Osborn and other eminent paleontologists . |
| 19 | Local car dealer Cowie , now regarded as the quality stock in the sector , also outperformed the market strongly . |
| 20 | The Boulby potash mine in North Yorkshire , working Upper Permian Zechstein evaporites at a depth of 1100m , began production in 1974 and is now producing at the rate of 770000t/y KCl . |
| 21 | From this humble beginning the family has built the Saha Pathana group , a collection of over 60 companies , 18 of which are now listed on the stockmarket . |
| 22 | Green 's text is a major work of scholarship and an important contribution to our knowledge of Cubism , one lacuna in which is now filled with the publication , in this catalogue and by Christian Derouet , of the missing correspondence from 1915 to 1920 between Gris and Leonce Rosenberg , the artist 's dealer during that period . |
| 23 | Rincewind found that he was now hanging onto the end of a tongue of bark and fibre , lengthening as it peeled away from the tree . |
| 24 | They 've also been lucky : a box of curtains bought for £20 , for resale , yielded the magnificent tapestries now hanging in the study . |
| 25 | The directors of this company have therefore ignored the legal requirements now attaching to the allotment of shares and are liable to a default fine for each infringement ( see Sch 24 , CA1985 ) . |
| 26 | However I notice that Wyre Borough Council workmen are now fencing off the area immediately around the swings etc . |
| 27 | It may be you see that the manufacturing flavour of the past two years was to do with the pre er Common Market period getting inside the European Union ring fence with the manufacturing plant and there is speculation as to whether that will now change that the Common Market is now established and that that window of opportunity for manufacturing has tended to recede suggesting that it may be erm administrative er er services service sector that erm these international companies would now want inside the Union . |
| 28 | Her eyes were now riveted on the ruler in the nun 's hand . |
| 29 | Having seen the need for NEAS , the coordinator now sits on the steering committee for the development of the Sunderland Enterprise Centre where NEAS will be one of the business advice services . |
| 30 | By rights Sue should be more adept at shop work because , after school and while waiting to go to RADA , she served in one of the hardware stores owned by her then businessman father , who became a Midlands MP and now sits in the House of Lords . |