Example sentences of "his [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | His future now rested , as it did until his death , on the forbearance of his main creditors , the Arkwrights . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Chambers ' marketing efforts have been direct , including cold calling , but a large amount of his work now comes by referral . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His body now exudes this pink gook which he subsequently bottles and gives to the Agent together with a bunch of other toiletries . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was his job now to maintain order and keep them moving smoothly . |
| 16 | His grandson now lives in the house . |
| 17 | His team now boasts a dynamic edge , an insatiable hunger for success . |
| 18 | Scott Hansen continues at UI Europe , his team now trimmed to six . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 22 | And , whereas he and his wife now pay a combined poll tax of £536 a year , he estimates that his rates would more than double . |
| 23 | Parker , his head now following his hand ; up over Anton 's belly , wet hot kisses . |
| 24 | President Reagan and his advisers want to loosen the government 's hold on satellites ; hence the instructions to McElroy to solicit tenders from companies to take over the craft that his organisation now operates . |
| 25 | He recounts rumour -false , it later seems , that the Shah in his despair now goes to a friends house to smokes opium three times a week . |
| 26 | But his gladness now sounded merely polite . |
| 27 | How well-cut his suit now turns out to be , and how confidently , as they disappear once more he is laying down die law to the old man sitting so respectfully opposite . |
| 28 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 29 | And having prepared the Tory Party to lose under Mr Major , will his victory now assume the misleading proportions of a sensational personal triumph ? |
| 30 | His father now refuses to give him the partnership . |