Example sentences of "now [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swing from suspicion to welcome which he met at Durham he now met at Cambridge . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage , news of which she now shared with Taheb . |
| 8 | Plus another standard gauge line — now mothballed by BR and currently the subject of the North Staffordshire Railway 's Churnet Valley campaigns . |
| 9 | And lass ’ — she now bent over Agnes — ‘ if that Dad of yours has done me lad any deep damage he 'll pay for it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 14 | While Dave was still a problem , it now seemed to Mr E remediable . |
| 15 | Forster now withdrew to Rothbury , which he reached on 19 October . |
| 16 | Mrs Grant now turned to Agnes who was kneeling by her side and said , ‘ Oh ! |
| 17 | Flinging a cloth over a side table , she now turned towards Mick and said , ‘ I 'm not puttin' meself out for you , mind . |
| 18 | In association with mutations , now discovered in Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( p 000 ) , PrPc may change into PrPSc , which could itself be the transmissible agent , causing further conversion of PrPc to PrPSc . |
| 19 | For his last few days in France , after Waterloo , the Emperor retired to La Malmaison , which had belonged to Josephine until her death in 1814 and now belonged to Hortense . |
| 20 | Apart from organising his domestic life , Stella Pullman was a disciplinarian in the old British landlady tradition ( her husband was a former RAF pilot who now flew for BOAC ) . |
| 21 | Nor did she have much confidence in many of the nannies who now worked at Park House . |
| 22 | Both had left after arguments with the firm 's owner and they now worked for Tommy Hatcher in Long Lane . |
| 23 | Corporal Wix was the retired soldier who now worked for General Francis . |
| 24 | And chief amongst these was Joseph Hyde , an ardent Nationalist who had actually known his father and mother in Dublin , but who now worked in Webbs , one of the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road . |
| 25 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 26 | With permission granted to operate a service out of Britain , Virgin now looked to America for permission from the American regulatory bodies , the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Aviation Authority , to fly into that country . |
| 27 | His one hope now lay with Philip and he went to visit him in Paris , the traditional move for all discontented sons of Henry Ii . |
| 28 | On Jan. 13 Italian President Francesco Cossiga admitted his involvement in an anti-communist paramilitary force formed in 1948 and claimed that " everyone then and now knew about Gladio 's activities " . |
| 29 | Chantal had not said how she now felt about Philippe Chaumont , and he felt unable to ask . |
| 30 | Hadrian had already fortified the city and brought in heavy garrisons for defence ; he now sent to Charles invoking the agreement between the Franks and the papacy . |