Example sentences of "his [noun] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he looked at McAllister sitting primly before him , hands in her lap , the face beneath the lace cap so enchanting that Angela Macleod , née Deverill , and all her works , flew away forever , and he knew again where his heart now lay . |
| 2 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 3 | His guardian now insisted that the family move to a healthier climate This well-intentioned advice proved disastrous , for within the space of one year in Italy Smith had suffered from frostbite , smallpox and malaria . |
| 4 | No bones gritted or grated , even though his ankles now felt miserably weak , it was just that his muscles would n't firm up enough to keep him straight . |
| 5 | His skin now looks reasonably healthy , but I would like to know if there is any chance that the pink pigment will revert back to its former black colour . |
| 6 | In 1988 Edinburgh acquired the complete set of watercolours for Edward Moxon 's edition of The Poetical works of Thomas Campbell , the only set of his illustrations now remaining together . |
| 7 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |
| 8 | His successors now carry body armour in their patrol cars . |
| 9 | He expected his troops would take two more towns and said his fighters now controlled the whole of Highway 69 , along the Thai frontier , north of Sisophon . |
| 10 | His future now rested , as it did until his death , on the forbearance of his main creditors , the Arkwrights . |
| 11 | He did not attempt the removal of the pyjama jacket , but suddenly stood up and began to pull the red trousers down and get them off ; and it seemed that Patrick , shifting very slightly , assisted the operation , his eyes now moving in awareness of what Marcus was doing . |
| 12 | His eyes now lit by a weak leer of hope , Barometer Barnes closed me out on the pink 35–43 . |
| 13 | This last reflection — it was Nova Scotia , he was pretty sure — seemed to tidy up the whole matter , which his mind now presented as a uniform interlocking structure , with working parts . |
| 14 | To hear it on his lips now sent a dart of terror through her . |
| 15 | The precociousness of his talent now seems to have been just as well , because by time he left his native land , aged eighteen , more than a third of his life was already gone . |
| 16 | Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace . |
| 17 | I no. 83 as Nicolas Poussin ) but with the acquisition of no less than six new drawings by Poussin , all from the Anthony Blunt collection , the representation of his work now covers most types of his draughtsmanship except landscape . |
| 18 | His work now emphasises the exhibition as a work of art in its own right ; his 1982 show ‘ Avanguardia-Transavanguardia ’ used the Aurelian walls of Rome as a backdrop while his ‘ Contemporanea ’ nine years earlier used the garages of the Villa Borghese , Rome , to introduce the notions of Fluxus , Minimal Art , Arte Povera and Conceptualism . |
| 19 | Mr Chambers ' marketing efforts have been direct , including cold calling , but a large amount of his work now comes by referral . |
| 20 | His campaign now seems to be down to its last card — to brand Mr Da Silva as a dangerous radical who is bent on introducing Stalinist communism into Brazil . |
| 21 | The weird light of dawn intensified his anxiety as his headlights now provided uncertain illumination . |
| 22 | His body now exudes this pink gook which he subsequently bottles and gives to the Agent together with a bunch of other toiletries . |
| 23 | His body now lay rotting under the cold grey slabs of an abbey , his strong rule was gone and , throughout the castle , nobles gathering for the council plotted and intrigued . |
| 24 | It was his job now to maintain order and keep them moving smoothly . |
| 25 | His grandson now lives in the house . |
| 26 | His team now boasts a dynamic edge , an insatiable hunger for success . |
| 27 | Scott Hansen continues at UI Europe , his team now trimmed to six . |
| 28 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 29 | His tally now stands at 11 , which puts him in third place behind Robert Alner ( 16 ) and Philip Scholfield ( 12 ) in the Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship . |
| 30 | It is that forensic report and another on the comparison of blood samples from the victim and on a tissue found in one of Beattie 's jackets , but not the one he was wearing on the night of the murder , which those trying to clear his name now want released . |