Example sentences of "[was/were] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The watchers were now bellowing encouragement to each of the players in a game which had taken a new turn . |
| 2 | What the cameras were now discovering and what audiences were now reacting to was Cagney 's own reality , a unique one-off reality or presence , albeit of the kind one hopes to run into whenever entering a New York bar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He saw that two men were now holding me , pushing me down and punching me and he recognized the man who was walking up the stairs . |
| 5 | Some 5000 former members of the BNA were now enlisted in the regular army , but this left thousands more outside , restless and discontented . |
| 6 | Minton , himself , still attended dinners and parties given by Lehmann , even though his interests were now drawing him away from the kind of society that Lehmann represented . |
| 7 | Reports were now reaching the SD that people — especially those attached to the Churches — were expressing the hope that the Wehrmacht would take over running the State , and that there would be a final victory for Germany but not for National Socialism . |
| 8 | Events were now reaching the crisis point . |
| 9 | Folly took that in , while trying to ignore the fact that Luke 's lips were now nuzzling at her ear . |
| 10 | The couple were now enjoying a regular social life together , which included going to the cinema , walking , and visiting friends . |
| 11 | The mountains and lakes were now revered as a source of ‘ uplift ’ . |
| 12 | Our two eight foot steel cutters , Vigilant and Valiant were now nearing the end of their useful life and were not really fast enough for our purposes . |
| 13 | The Seventies people who survived were now thirtysomething . |
| 14 | I had to jump to the cage attached to the crane as my feet were now tied together , the man in the cage checked everything once more and then we were off . |
| 15 | Yet his business limitations and overblown ambitions were now exposed . |
| 16 | During 1915 , Germany and her bolstered ally , Austria , were to achieve great successes in the east and make large conquests of territory , but any prospect of a quick victory for the Central Powers , upon which all had been so confidently staked , were now forfeited beyond redemption . |
| 17 | They were now highlighted with Winsor & Newton 's acrylic gold , put on three times to be sure of a strongly reflective finish . |
| 18 | The arguments used by the radicals against the continued existence of the independent sector were now turned and used against the continued existence of grammar schools and direct grant schools ( which were equally selective and even more predominantly middle-class ) . |
| 19 | The Samaritans wanted to be treated as Sidonians , just as the inhabitants of Jerusalem were now treated as Antiochenes . |
| 20 | Least of all his brothers , who were now watching with ever increasing dismay as Mike , the ‘ broth 's ’ best fighter , was having the rings run round him by the family runt . |
| 21 | But the managers were now watching her all the time . |
| 22 | The night before his death I had bought a big bunch of red carnations to put in my room with the lighted candles we were now writing by , to please Dana . |
| 23 | Alice looked at the jury , who were now writing everything down . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Adenauer 's paternalism and his willingness to rehabilitate ex-Nazis who renounced their former beliefs were now questioned . |
| 26 | Though he claimed all the peoples of Burma were now united he admitted that this unity ‘ is only in the initial stages … tender and fragile ’ . |
| 27 | They were now to withdraw to corridors with a width of 3 km , along ( i ) the 315-km road , rail and oil pipeline running through central Mozambique to the port of Beira ; and ( ii ) the 540-km railway along the Limpopo river from the Zimbabwean border to Mozambique 's capital , Maputo . |
| 28 | Unlike the mother-country and its dependencies , above all India , the self-governing colonies were protectionist ; but they were now prepared , and indeed in some cases were anxious , to afford the mother-country preferential treatment within their tariff system if the mother-country would reciprocate . |
| 29 | Such sacrifice , without significant lasting reward , was beyond human bearing , and the ingredients were now marinating for Russia 's collapse into confusion , anarchy and , shortly , revolution . |
| 30 | The strongest criticisms came from those congressmen whose regional power bases were now threatened , and from PL and PSC power brokers whose ability to elect and re-elect their own people was endangered . |