Example sentences of "now [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swing from suspicion to welcome which he met at Durham he now met at Cambridge . |
| 2 | They now operated in cells , and even if Patrick and Jane were being sheltered , only a very small number of people , perhaps no more than two or three , might be aware of it . |
| 3 | Bogged down in Mexico and denied any support from Britain , Napoleon III had been unable to exercise any influence during the war which Prussia had forced on Denmark in 1864 and Bismarck was determined that there should also be no interference in the war which he now planned with Austria . |
| 4 | The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations . |
| 5 | After this , Pakeezah 's brothers went to Pakistan while her younger sister emigrated to England : she now lived in Wembley where her husband worked in a biscuit factory making shortbread . |
| 6 | His sister , he explained , had married a Tongan , and the couple now lived in Mainz : not perhaps the most attractive of men , he had been invited out to stay among the substantial ladies of the islands to see if he , too , could forge any links . |
| 7 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 8 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |
| 9 | He now realized with astonishment that there was apparently a part of the warren underground which was big enough to contain them all together . |
| 10 | Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage , news of which she now shared with Taheb . |
| 11 | They were a species of organizational rhetoric ( now menaced by public access to the monopoly of enforcement ) , embodying compromise between conflicting values and recognition of the vagaries of the environment to be controlled . |
| 12 | Plus another standard gauge line — now mothballed by BR and currently the subject of the North Staffordshire Railway 's Churnet Valley campaigns . |
| 13 | If Aunt Emily had looked shocked before her eyes now dilated in horror . |
| 14 | INVESTMENT in safety has scaled new heights at Courtaulds Chemicals in the UK with a massive 6,000 man days per year now devoted to training . |
| 15 | And lass ’ — she now bent over Agnes — ‘ if that Dad of yours has done me lad any deep damage he 'll pay for it . |
| 16 | Archbishop Reynolds , who had excommunicated the invaders on their arrival in England , now fled from London on horses appropriated — so it is said — from the bishop of Rochester who had to make his way to safety on foot . |
| 17 | One third of this now sagged under water . |
| 18 | The Mother Superior did n't need to check Aggie 's flow , she did it herself , saying , ‘ Well , this one here ’ — she now thumbed towards Millie — ‘ I 'd like to bet she 's read the Bible from beginnin' to end , an' many other books besides . |
| 19 | Duncan , the son presented to the English king as hostage some twenty years earlier , now appealed for William II 's help in return for a promise of fealty . |
| 20 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 21 | While Dave was still a problem , it now seemed to Mr E remediable . |
| 22 | The only fact that now seemed beyond doubt was that Syria and Iran were obviously the two countries who were crucial to getting all the hostages released , whoever was actually holding them . |
| 23 | Even the digression up to Cajamarca now seemed in retrospect more like an adventure than something to send shivers down the spine . |
| 24 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |
| 25 | By the 24th the invaders were in Kendal and town after town now capitulated without resistance . |
| 26 | Banks now opened on Saturdays because the building societies had gone on the attack . |
| 27 | Forster now withdrew to Rothbury , which he reached on 19 October . |
| 28 | The green forest now flared with colour as the plants advertised the delights and rewards they had on offer . |
| 29 | But lunch now consisted of cottage cheese , salad and two crispbreads . |
| 30 | Mrs Grant now turned to Agnes who was kneeling by her side and said , ‘ Oh ! |