Example sentences of "now [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 2 | ‘ Lafayette ’ may have been the name of a French noble woman , but it now refers to a brand new and stunning range of carpets launched by Stoddard Templeton . |
| 3 | That what I always call a family , is now referred to a lot a lot as a family . |
| 4 | The name Piercea is , however , now treated as a synonym of Rivina . |
| 5 | But with the Dalai Lama , who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule , now honoured with a Nobel Peace Prize not merely for his religious work but for ‘ his struggle for the liberation of Tibet ’ , China 's efforts to keep him and his cause in quarantine will be all the more difficult . |
| 6 | Salaries were now arranged in a more systematic hierarchy and paid more regularly than in the past . |
| 7 | The strategy that Freeman is following is similar to that of classical structuralism ( e.g. Lévi-Strauss 1963 ) now melded into a Lakoffian brand of cognitivism . |
| 8 | Dr. Ethelwynn Trewavas , well-known to cichlid keepers for her work on African Cichlids , and I are now collaborating on a paper on this subject . |
| 9 | Now pick on a word which describes your new self-image ( e.g. winner , adventurer , sparkler , powerhouse , inventor , joybringer , enthusiast , philosopher ) . |
| 10 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 11 | In creating the replica pavement , Mr Bob Woodward , a builder by trade , has undertaken such thorough background research that he is now regarded as a leading international expert on Roman mosaics . |
| 12 | About his men , Lancaster is quoted as saying : ‘ A tramway servant is now regarded as a responsible public servant and not , as formerly a drudge ’ . |
| 13 | The ideal manager is now regarded as a coach who helps others develop their skills and can act as a role model , rather than as an authoritarian figure issuing orders by virtue of his or her overt status . |
| 14 | The appointment of a non-computer person , Louis Gerstner , as the new chief executive , now regarded as a near-certainty , did nothing to improve sentiment , and late on Tuesday , the shares tumbled $3.125 to $51.125 , fuelled by a profits warning from Amdahl Corp . |
| 15 | Hairy cell leukaemia is now regarded as a variant of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and has been grouped with it . |
| 16 | Today elegans and livingstonii are still considered valid , but lanisticola is now regarded as a synonym of livingstonii , and ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ as possibly a further synonym of the same species . |
| 17 | They add : ‘ A little touch of the old Tory pragmatism would have avoided what is now regarded as a policy fiasco . ’ |
| 18 | The woman , identified as Roberta Jones , is now listed in a serious condition on Sunday night at Harbourview Medical Centre , according to the hospital 's nursing supervisor . |
| 19 | The ability of the modem to translate signals makes the information services market we have today a possibility … information publishers must now prepare for a new challenge and for a similar degree of networking capacity for video and other multimedia as they currently experience for data … ’ |
| 20 | The horrible emptiness of his heart , mocked in a cruel doubling by his empty room , was now filled with a domesticity he had thought would never be his . |
| 21 | The aircraft had gone , the space it had occupied now filled with a small single-engined plane . |
| 22 | THE FUTURE OF 88OPEN IS NOW HANGING BY A THREAD |
| 23 | He 's one of two patients now re-couperating with a family at a secret address . |
| 24 | The mountains and lakes were now revered as a source of ‘ uplift ’ . |
| 25 | As ever , his six feet of height and broad shoulders , just now clad in a chambray shirt , made her feel overwhelmed by his presence . |
| 26 | Blue chip shares now sell on a phenomenal 37 times their earnings — but that is half as phenomenal as the ratio of three years ago . |
| 27 | What makes the privatisations even more attractive is that vouchers on the secondary market now sell at a discount of over 60% . |
| 28 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 29 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 30 | As he continues with the prayer that those who receive the sacrament may " be fulfilled with all hevenly benediction and grace through Jesus Christ " , so Rolle in The Form of Living now turns to a description of the interior awareness of this fulfilment . |