Example sentences of "which now [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 2 | Hannele had given Edward a sheet of paper with names and numbers on it , which now lay on the desk . |
| 3 | Instead he studied the reflections in the window ; the blurred beak of his own nose , that thong as if of an Indian brave imprinted across his brow by the absurd cap which he had removed at Crewe and which now lay among the cigarette butts at his feet ; the jutting shoulders of the poker players who sprayed their cards like fans beneath their mouths . |
| 4 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 5 | Through her hair , which now lay in a tangle about her face , she saw a pair of long legs flex . |
| 6 | His hair , which now reached past his shoulder blades , curled as lustily as honeysuckle . |
| 7 | This produced complete deadlock in the conference , which now went to the highest governmental level , showing the importance attached to the matter by both the USA and the UK . |
| 8 | The central target of the new rationalism , however , was the chorus , which now came to be seen as an anomalous relic of the past . |
| 9 | Supporters of détente in the 1970s could argue that personal contacts , trade and the Helsinki agreements had undermined the Soviet hold on the East , but opponents of détente could counter that Reagan 's Cold War policies had helped to put unbearable strains on the Soviet economy , which now seemed on the verge of collapse . |
| 10 | Hope walked rapidly from the outlying church towards Keswick which now seemed like a net , dropped on him when he was unaware , leaving him pinioned … |
| 11 | Coote , along with other campaigners , backed the new aggressive police action , testifying to the special relationship which now existed between purists and the police . |
| 12 | At least for the moment , Scapula was able to concentrate his forces on the western frontier , which now extended to the Wye and the Severn . |
| 13 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 14 | " Only in the 1840 's and later did the situation begin to improve markedly ; and the class which now emerged into comparative prosperity was not an elite of labour aristocrats but a more homogenous class of factory workers … " ( p.47 ) |
| 15 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 16 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 17 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 18 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 19 | He would return to her , to beg her pardon for so basely misjudging her , and they would find again the former ease of friendship , the lack of which now gaped in her life like an open wound . |
| 20 | That was how it had been , perhaps that was where it had started , thought Liz , as she stared into past and future , before jerking herself back into the present , which now stood at 20.22 . |
| 21 | She paid tribute to all who helped raise money for the appeal which now stood at £280,000 . |
| 22 | She had been here four days now , and , true to his word , Jonas had said nothing about Travis or the jade , which now stood in its rightful place in the display cabinet . |
| 23 | My lips quivered as I entered the small , plastic roadsweeper 's hut which now acted as the home team 's changing room . |
| 24 | On the eve of the congress two political groups described as being on the right of the revolutionary spectrum , the National Convention of Progressive Patriots ( CNPP ) and the Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina ( UDPB ) , were allowed to join the Front , which now consisted of four national unions and seven political groups . |