Example sentences of "in which [pron] now [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 2 | Her riding ability had paved the way for her acceptance amongst the circles in which they now moved . |
| 3 | For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this . |
| 4 | So , over the years there had been a number of leather bags added to those under the loose floor boards beneath the bed in which she now spent her nights and , in her time , expected to die … |
| 5 | Unfortunately there was nothing fictitious about the situation in which she now found herself — and one which she really must resolve as soon as possible . |
| 6 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
| 7 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 8 | The memories were vague and dream-like , not associated with the world in which he now lived , but he was well aware that the relatively brief time he spent on the island had changed his life irreversibly . |
| 9 | Mock solemnity of this kind may seem rather tiresome , just as practical jokes are often not funny to those on whom they are played ( they may often appear to be lightly camouflaged forms of aggression ) , but such jokes were characteristic of the society in which he now moved : it is difficult to imagine him playing tricks on Pound or Lewis , for example . |
| 10 | When he reached the foot of the ladder , Grant turned and directed the torch light down the length of the tunnel in which he now found himself . |
| 11 | Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat . |
| 12 | Change in habitat was not the only pressure the orang-utan faced in the three islands in which it now lived . |
| 13 | However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived . |
| 14 | Congress ( I ) nevertheless remained short of a majority in the Rajya Sabha in which it now held 115 out of 237 seats ( with eight seats vacant ) . |