Example sentences of "now [vb past] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include Andrew ( director Branagh ) , a talented writer now sold out to LA sitcom-land . |
| 2 | Additionally , the State Security Service and the anti-riot Mobile Police Force now reported directly to him . |
| 3 | Still , industrial production now contributed seriously to agricultural capital , and so , through the ( largely German ) science of organic chemistry , did modern science . |
| 4 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 5 | She and Jack now drove out to Chiswick where they played tennis in the afternoons . |
| 6 | It 's a story now told only to children . |
| 7 | Although now believed not to be the gene responsible for FAP , MCC still clearly represents a common site for mutagenesis , and may therefore be another colorectal tumour suppressor gene . |
| 8 | Messengers were sent on ahead with a manifesto : Charles was coming to make good his rights ; there would be an amnesty for all who now came over to him ; those who refused to accept his God-given rule would have to quit his kingdom . |
| 9 | Having come this great distance to intercede for her father , she now seemed instead to be constantly arguing with his shade . |
| 10 | The budget , now whittled down to $160m , has only recently been approved by the General Assembly committee that does such jobs . |
| 11 | With characteristically bad judgement , Charles now turned back to the Scots , with whom he made a secret treaty under which the Solemn League and Covenant would be confirmed by King and Parliament , and presbyterianism would be established in England for a limited period . |
| 12 | Campbell now turned back to the water . |
| 13 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |
| 14 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 15 | Edward 's left eye now drooped almost to closing as he gnawed at his lip . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't waste any time getting to grips with him , ’ joked Sandy , now slimmed down to a comfortable 14 stone . |