Example sentences of "[coord] now [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One vignette follows another , taking the reader from disappointing Mount Fuji to the old ( and now gone ) Asahi Beer Hall in a Tokyo slum . |
| 2 | The Aug. 6 statement was accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage Terry Anderson , kidnapped in March 1985 and now detained for longer than any other of the Westerners captive in Lebanon . |
| 3 | Around 2.30 , when , after several attempts , the waiter succeeded in removing Sixsmith 's untouched prawn cocktail , and now prepared to serve them their braised chop with a third carafe , the two men were arguing loudly about early Puzo . |
| 4 | But that 's exactly what 's happened and now fed up villagers are doing something about it . |
| 5 | From there he had got into Trinity College , and now hoped for a career in the Civil Service . |
| 6 | But ten million people had died in a campaign that had begun as a summer frolic in 1914 and now ended in a shower of November rain . |
| 7 | Zany was such a settlement , located during the construction of the Ms motorway near Taunton , and now covered by the Taunton Dean Service Station . |
| 8 | The shop , established in 1934 and now run by the founder 's grandsons , is undoubtedly one of the most important delicatessens in the country , vast in its range of goods and uncompromising in its quality . |
| 9 | The Derwent 's energy cost savings were £3,000 in the first year and now run at more that £4,000 a year . |
| 10 | Anne had convinced herself that no harm would come to John , and now moved through her days in a happy dream . |
| 11 | This caught the notorious ( and now repealed ) section 2 for which the punishment was a maximum of two years . |
| 12 | The principle of this Lift is shewn in the general plan , section and details prepared in January 1886 and now completed and submitted to you . |
| 13 | To complete our disgruntlement , this month here in Moffat we have witnessed the boarding-up of our familiar old , tastefully-designed bronze posting box recessed under the window of the post office and now replaced by one of those monstrous red pillar-boxes , concreted into the pavement immediately in front . |
| 14 | For the first time in months , her hair had been cut and now swung in a pale honey curtain halfway down her back . |
| 15 | A postmodernist option , which we have encountered briefly in Sukenick 's fiction and now seen in Barth 's protagonists composing their story in opposition to political forces devoted to secrecy ( to a silent plot in other words ) , is developed to extraordinarily intricate lengths in the novels of Thomas Pynchon . |
| 16 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |
| 17 | These had already had a brief clash with the German destroyers and now headed north with the MGB were MLs 5 and 15 , but ML 15 had to be abandoned . |
| 18 | He had been in correspondence with Ho , and now determined to make a personal visit to Hanoi to search for peace . |
| 19 | Widespread in the Pacific is Broussonetia papyrifera ( Moraceae ) , originally from Asia and now grown from China and Japan through Malesia to America , where it is naturalized : it is the basis of Polynesian tapa cloth , which is made from its bark . |
| 20 | To refute charges of atheism he cited two religious treatises he had written , ‘ Sabbath-dayes exercises ’ and ‘ Positions in Divinitie ’ ( apparently unpublished and now lost ) . |
| 21 | She spread a towel out on the sand and sat down but , disappointed and now frightened at her own temerity , Liza began to panic , scarcely noticing Celia when she came staggering towards her , dragging slimy bits of seaweed or producing pebbles and shells in her small fat hand . |
| 22 | And now hooked for life |
| 23 | The next mill downstream was also originally a corn mill , named The Good Intent , and now called The Limes . |
| 24 | By the 1930s , when the problems of dialogue recording made it easier to bring the world into the studio rather than taking the camera to the world ( whereas in the pre-sound 1920s it was fine control of lighting that favoured studio shooting ) , moving images — then and now called ‘ plates ’ — could be projected behind the action and foreground props or sets , provided the camera and projector were ( as in the step-printer already discussed ) exactly synchronized . |
| 25 | Capricorn Note , owned by Stuart Ray and now trained at Wimbledon by Arthur Hitch , races in a five-dog heat on Saturday and should qualify for the second round . |
| 26 | Then it was Sue 's turn , and she opened up a shimmering square of silk scarf , which had been flattened to the size of an envelope and now expanded and billowed across the table like the sail of a brilliant ship . |
| 27 | There was a current copy of the local rag lying on the chair beside him : he had read The Times and the Independent and now turned to the more microcosmic news . |
| 28 | The roses had given up their annual struggle to keep things cheerful and now hemmed in Mr Rowse 's path with thorns . |
| 29 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 30 | What you advocate is similar to the International Baccalaureat , a successful school-leaving certificate pioneered by the International School in Geneva and now accepted by reputable universities worldwide , including Britain . |