Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brain had enlarged later in order to exploit the tool-making capacities of hands that were now freed from the task of locomotion . |
| 2 | The three Frenchmen have just settled into the trench as I contemplated the hordes of mosquitoes that were now descending on the area . |
| 3 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |
| 4 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 5 | Entire families too had travelled to the station on bicycles … bicycles that were now parked untidily by the diamond woodwork of the station-yard fence . |
| 6 | It was all those problems , and a few more , that were now fouling up the North Sea and other parts of Britain . |
| 7 | However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them . |
| 8 | Everyone could feel the abnormal strains that were now racking the monied world . |
| 9 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 10 | Two hundred and fifty had gone on the video that was now tucked away securely in his car . |
| 11 | The flowers had probably been ordered soon after the Rose Bowl opened , and that morning she had taken time off to buy the dress that was now causing her indecision . |
| 12 | The plan that was now beginning to hatch in her mind depended , however , upon whether or not Fred 's parrot was really as good a talker as Fred made out . |
| 13 | But it was a history that was now informed by the lengthy experience of partition , Polenpolitik and Kulturkampf As such it was a history that was perceived and shaped in terms of feelings , legacies , fears and foes . |
| 14 | I hoped this trench was deep enough , and the roof strong enough to give us some protection from the increasing mortar fire that was now coming our way . |
| 15 | I could see her face very clearly in the wisp of cloud that was now making its way across the sky . |
| 16 | And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor . |
| 17 | I had been interviewing a family — four young brothers , two sisters , their parents , the children 's paternal grandmother — about their lives in a city that was now dominated by the Syrian army . |
| 18 | She glanced at the woman sitting in the bed ; a long-limbed creature with gentle brown eyes and chestnut-coloured hair that was now streaked with silver . |
| 19 | He screamed as loudly as his horse that was now blocking the high road with its failing death throes . |
| 20 | In the course of the evening we had sampled a wide variety of wines , and were now experiencing a woozy sense of disassociation that was like being drunk and hung-over at the same time . |
| 21 | On the other hand , she thought miserably , what if they had already made love , and were now dozing ; before waking to start all over again ? |
| 22 | The money would be spent to pay social insurance benefits to people who had been persecuted and driven out of the country at the time of the Anschluss and were now living in countries such as Israel and the United States , and a small proportion would be devoted to projects in Austria . |
| 23 | They had ceased operations in February 1992 on the basis of government 's pledges to provide land and credits , and were now demanding that these pledges be honoured . |
| 24 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 25 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 26 | Bushes of prickly blackberry and wild rose had broken free of the lower level and were now marching towards the house like an insidious green army . |
| 27 | Both Dragoons had galloped past Sharpe and were now trying to turn their horses for a second attack . |
| 28 | With the spread of Christianity the Beltane fires , like so many pagan practices , were ‘ Christianised ’ and were now lit to celebrate the feast of St John . |
| 29 | Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ? |
| 30 | The single-storey grey stone building stood amid fields where vines and figs used to grow in abundance , but which had been left to run wild and were now covered in bright carpets of wild flowers . |