Example sentences of "now [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While Dave was still a problem , it now seemed to Mr E remediable . |
| 4 | Forster now withdrew to Rothbury , which he reached on 19 October . |
| 5 | Mrs Grant now turned to Agnes who was kneeling by her side and said , ‘ Oh ! |
| 6 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 7 | Armed with restored confidence , a new machine and — hopefully — a little luck , I now returned to sites that had seemed promising but had yielded very little . |
| 8 | They now began to side with the extreme wing of the pied noir integrationist movement , which openly called for his overthrow . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 11 | On the other hand , princes felt free to vent their own anger in ways which they now blocked to others . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The appointments preserved the balance of portfolios between the two parties , except that the Ministry of Information , previously held by Mario Rueda Pena of the New Majority faction of the MIR ( MIR-NM ) , now went to Jaime Céspedes Toro ( ADN ) . |
| 15 | And it was about that that Peggy now spoke to Mrs White , saying , ‘ I bet you had some clearing up after the mob on Friday night . ’ |
| 16 | He now travelled to Spain in a small English ship which was chased by pirates . |