Example sentences of "now [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safely buried , Osiris now arose from the grave to train his son Horus for the punishment of Seth . |
| 2 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 3 | Lincoln University , and the benefits it might gain from a Barnes tour , were also cited in J. Carter Brown 's 24 January letter , now appended to the Orphans Court petition . |
| 4 | I had often discussed my plans with my uncle who , as Warden , now lived in the Warden 's Lodge at All Souls , where he and his wife encouraged me to visit them and always made me welcome . |
| 5 | Richard erm if I now got to the stage of saying if if you had a choice , cos I have a luxury here of six companies er most recruiters just have one job for one company . |
| 6 | Len now rose from the bed and began his packing , while Joe , picking up his cap , looked at him for a moment , then said , ‘ Well , be seeing you . ’ |
| 7 | He now receded from the City , rarely appearing at the exchanges , even the Baltic , the scene of his most memorable deals in Russian tallow . |
| 8 | Sailing ship now berthed on the Clyde |
| 9 | The first fireworks now exploded outside the pavilion . |
| 10 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 11 | The car park was so full that upon my visits to the hospital I now parked across the road in a garden centre . |
| 12 | The description of Sycorax 's magic circulated and of course grew in the telling : scarred by fire , she now played with the element , burning circles of flame round creatures she had demanded Ariel procure for her ; she watched their panic , as they spun in their prison of flames . |
| 13 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
| 14 | On the political right the fourth estate busied itself in a revived version of the old Chamberlain protectionist pipedream of Empire Unity , as now expounded by the press lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 15 | Azharuddin , so out of touch earlier in the tour , now came to the fore , stroking his wristy way to 106 , his 11th Test century . |
| 16 | Tensions submerged in the earlier campaign now came to the fore and led more and more to a coercive policy of sexual regulation , especially of working-class prostitutes . |
| 17 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 18 | The main threat now came from the north and west : from the Picts and their allies the Irish , with whom Aldfrith [ q.v . ] , |
| 19 | Supporters of détente in the 1970s could argue that personal contacts , trade and the Helsinki agreements had undermined the Soviet hold on the East , but opponents of détente could counter that Reagan 's Cold War policies had helped to put unbearable strains on the Soviet economy , which now seemed on the verge of collapse . |
| 20 | Furious , Dr Dunstaple now seemed on the point of turning on the Padre and mowing the wiry cleric down with his fists , but by this time Louise and Mrs Dunstaple had hastened to his side and now they dragged him away , hushing him desperately . |
| 21 | Estlin now withdrew from the BFASS , demonstrating for one last time his use as a barometer of sentiment in intra-reform relations . |
| 22 | The remaining lump now consisted of the crankcase , blacks , heads , inlet manifolds and fuel trunk . |
| 23 | ( This grouping now consisted of the PK — as successor to the FPD — together with the Peasant Christian Alliance and the Christian Democrat Party , both of the latter being members of the government coalition . ) |
| 24 | She now turned towards the table when Ben said , ‘ You finished ? ’ and the child replied , ‘ Yes , thank you . |
| 25 | She now turned from the pony and looked towards the side gate separated from the front gate by a hedge of trees . |
| 26 | It was this force which the Collector now threw into the engagement , though he had to shout the order more than once as their leader , Judge Adams , was rather deaf . |
| 27 | My lips quivered as I entered the small , plastic roadsweeper 's hut which now acted as the home team 's changing room . |
| 28 | The real murderers now hid in the shadows , mocking both him and Cranston , believing they would never search out the truth . |
| 29 | Ace had stopped running , and now walked towards the hoverspeeder very slowly , as if waiting for Defries to catch her up before she reached it . |
| 30 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |