Example sentences of "of the now [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Swain , describing returning to Phnom Penh after a thirteen- year absence , wrote wistfully of the now vanished maisons flottantes ( floating brothels ) and the old Café de Paris cyclo-girls who would coo ‘ Aller avec vous ce soir , Monsieur ’ . |
| 2 | The building of the now leaking sarcophagus alone cost an astonishing amount of money , on the best estimate available . |
| 3 | MUST FOR fans of the now re-showing cult telly series . |
| 4 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 5 | Iulian Vlad , 59 , the head of the now disbanded Securitate secret police and Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior under the regime of President Ceausescu until Dec. 22 , 1989 , on charges of taking the dissident Dumitru Mazilu into custody illegally on Dec. 21 , 1989 . |
| 6 | Grants to help offset the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by volunteers in geological conservation work have been announced by English Nature — the English branch of the now disbanded Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 7 | We returned to spend our last night on the top floor of the now abandoned community house , in what was now the distinctly eerie Rante . |
| 8 | Centre-right parties had called for his resignation in February for failing to take effective action against former members of the now dissolved StB security service . |
| 9 | Yanto sat in front of the now blazing fire , naked , except for an ex-army blanket draped around him . |
| 10 | The republics are to go ahead with economic-reform plans of their own on the basis of the now changing programme . |
| 11 | Murky clouds passed over , mocking its long-dead designers ' memory of the now obscured sun . |
| 12 | THE DINOSAURS were the product of the now known laws of evolution . |