Example sentences of "now lay " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin O'Neill , the party 's defence spokesman , said the road to arms control now lay through the process of negotiation . |
| 2 | The struggle for the succession now lay more narrowly between Kikuyu claimants and Vice-president Moi . |
| 3 | Perhaps no one would ever know the reason , for Jerome Fanshawe 's Jaguar had skidded , crashed and caught fire five miles from the hospital where the sole survivor now lay . |
| 4 | All responsibility now lay with the West . |
| 5 | Mr Major seemed relieved that everything now lay in the lap of the gods . |
| 6 | She had slept restlessly but the slim shape under the blankets now lay still . |
| 7 | For her land now lay underneath a plantation of banana trees a few hundred yards down the road from a bricked-up mosque . |
| 8 | They now lay for ever dead . |
| 9 | The fog had thickened , so that the enemy ranks now lay concealed by the screen of mist across the valley . |
| 10 | An action in rem now lay against the trustee , where earlier law had allowed only an action in personam . |
| 11 | His body now lay rotting under the cold grey slabs of an abbey , his strong rule was gone and , throughout the castle , nobles gathering for the council plotted and intrigued . |
| 12 | Next morning they attended the Requiem Mass for their dead colleague who had been dressed by the monks for burial and now lay in a new pine coffin in front of the sanctuary steps of the abbey church . |
| 13 | The Danzig Senators argued that the only way forward now lay in an immediate return to the Reich , but they were still afraid that this would provoke an invasion of the city and war with Poland . |
| 14 | In their hands love seemed a narrow-eyed , exclusive , selfish bastard , to enjoy itself at the expense of a woman who now lay in bed in Auntie Jean 's house , her life unconsidered . |
| 15 | She had put it on and taken it off three times ; it now lay on the chair beside her . |
| 16 | The child 's arm had been trodden on , hard , and he now lay on the ground screaming , holding his wrist . |
| 17 | The house that when he first saw it had seemed to float on a raft of golden mist , now lay in a wilderness , amidst ragged grass and straggling bushes and trees dead from the heat . |
| 18 | They were still visited ; sacrifice was still made ; the deities were still honoured ; but the real seat of religious power now lay in the temples . |
| 19 | The walk-in had got steadily worse as the altitude began to tell , but all that now lay behind us . |
| 20 | The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon . |
| 21 | Where Jemima had sat , there now lay a large speckled brown egg . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The dispute now lay between the new class of foristas and their sub-tenants who cultivated the land . |
| 24 | Instead he studied the reflections in the window ; the blurred beak of his own nose , that thong as if of an Indian brave imprinted across his brow by the absurd cap which he had removed at Crewe and which now lay among the cigarette butts at his feet ; the jutting shoulders of the poker players who sprayed their cards like fans beneath their mouths . |
| 25 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 26 | From the wall above the fireplace he had taken a gun and shot Troy , who now lay very still . |
| 27 | One of the four mock-doric pillars had fallen and now lay , like the broken leg of a stone giant , half-buried in the window frame behind where it had previously stood . |
| 28 | Another was shot as he fired into the house , and now lay wounded with his smoking pistol in his hand . |
| 29 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 30 | The material which yesterday had draped them now lay in discarded heaps on the stones of the paving below , and men were hastily tacking new lengths — the mercers and drapers must have ransacked their warehouses to find enough , and the cost would no doubt make the court treasurer blench — to the framework . |