Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] now [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 2 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 3 | For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this . |
| 4 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 5 | What I now faced was a small town with a strongly macho bias and an inbuilt resistance to change . |
| 6 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 7 | Dana 's voice came back to her with its underlying excitement and what she now realised was fear . |
| 8 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 9 | But on their return , Diana is already starting to look thin with evidence of what we now know was bulimia . |
| 10 | Jones had tried various materials and what he now sought was rather clearly defined — are there neutrons of a specific energy or not ? — and his apparatus was almost completed and ready to go ; the chemists by contrast had to do a broader range of experiments as their problem was more subtle — is there fusion and if so by what process ? — and the necessary materials and apparatus had yet to be assembled . |
| 11 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 12 | What he now saw was quite marvellous . |