Example sentences of "now it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , despite what had occurred in the past between them , SHe needed Cab so badly now it hurt more than the bruises in hir belly . |
| 2 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 3 | But now it seemed terrible that they should be able to talk so naturally while Dr. Lorrimer lay there dead upstairs . |
| 4 | Even now it seemed incredible that Mark — cynical , idle , sophisticated Mark , had actually joined that file of Catholic students who , during Holy Week , carried a heavy wooden Cross through the public streets and along the open road between London and Our Lady 's shrine at Walsingham . |
| 5 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 6 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 7 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 8 | Until he reached five degrees he had found that it turned easily , through long use … but now it became stiff and awkward . |
| 9 | Now it looked grubby , collapsed and marked like a very old deck of cards . |
| 10 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 11 | It had n't looked an easy distance before , but now it looked impossible . |
| 12 | Now it looked different . |
| 13 | Now it looked foolish and out of place . |
| 14 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 15 | Not in this airless back yard with its cat-fouled alley , yet now it bore shining green leaves and four fat flower buds — and Gerry would never see them . |
| 16 | Funny , it had n't seemed very far before ; now it loomed large and unexpectedly out of reach . |
| 17 | Now it covered all the lowlands of Sichuan . |