Example sentences of "was now [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was now acting in defence of the properties of Canterbury , a matter for which he alone was responsible . |
| 2 | Nudity was now presented on stage and one producer tried to coax Jane into leaving Tiller for this work . |
| 3 | The broad thoroughfare was now corning to life . |
| 4 | A winning Club was now led from dummy and East was trapped . |
| 5 | The courtyard was now overflowing with serious-faced , white-galabeahed men . |
| 6 | His words combined with Davide 's torpor to close around him like an iron lung , though the sweat brought on by his pace was now increased by terror . |
| 7 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 8 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 9 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 10 | His green crest , she saw , was now tinged with brown at the roots . |
| 11 | It was late , much later than she had imagined , and the storm was now beginning in earnest . |
| 12 | The opposition in Ovens was now joined by opposition in other areas considered for the dumping of Raybestos 's waste . |
| 13 | The trash and wreckage before him was now shivering with fire as he stood , hands on hips , watching all his powers gather in the smoke . |
| 14 | Furthermore the period of intense pollution at the beginning of the mining was now barred by statute from legal suit and also the company could claim it had provided compensation then which was accepted . |
| 15 | The intolerance he had shown for free-traders before 1914 was now turned on rebel Unionists who rocked the coalition boat . |
| 16 | The dark hair was now highlighted with silver . |
| 17 | Above the sink , ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling . |
| 18 | The Victorian idea that domestic work should be subordinate and invisible had shifted , to the extent that the cooking was now done on centre stage , over the fire . |
| 19 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 20 | Boris Pankin , appointed Foreign Minister on Aug. 28 , 1991 , after the dismissal of Aleksandr Bessmertnykh [ see p. 38372 ] , was now named as ambassador to the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | Society was now based on complicity in the common crime ; religion was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it ; while morality was based partly on the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt . |
| 22 | The phone was now covered with bath foam . |
| 23 | The STOP-SPOT red-breasted rarity had been swamped again and was now hidden from view . |
| 24 | His war wound which had pained him earlier was now turning to agony . |
| 25 | Consumer goods production had fallen by 12-24 per cent , but there were more consumer goods in the shops , because a higher proportion of consumer spending was now going on food . |
| 26 | The rift was now growing between Parliament , which favoured the establishment of Presbyterianism , and the army , which proposed that all forms of Christian worship except Roman Catholicism should be tolerated . |
| 27 | Diana was now growing in self-confidence , a quality recognized by her elevation to school prefect . |
| 28 | She had been taken to Hastings Hospital and was now waiting for X-ray results . |
| 29 | Louise was now quivering with indignation . |
| 30 | While previously residential care had been seen as the solution for many young children , it was now considered as part of the problem . |