Example sentences of "now [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser , impatient at so inactive a role , persuaded the Regent to relieve him and appoint a replacement Deputy Warden , and now rode on with the main cavalry host . |
| 2 | A second small figure now crept out of the darkness and started to edge towards him . |
| 3 | Consequently , the rule now laid down by the House of Lords is that where in construing a consolidation Act |
| 4 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 5 | But Tandri now came up with the bright idea of charging an exorbitant additional fee for every island we needed to call at en route . |
| 6 | Boelcke , promoted captain after his eighteenth victory , now came out with the idea of creating a Jagdstaffel , or ‘ hunting pack ’ ( later given the soubriquet of ‘ Flying Circus ’ by the Royal Flying Corps ) , a group of twelve planes divided into flights of three , and flying in closely interdependent formation . |
| 7 | Elinor 's cat , Fudge , now allowed back into the bedroom , padded to the grey sofa in front of the fireplace , where Adam sat , and rubbed against his jeans . |
| 8 | Rain now poured in through the broken window , the wind also whipping through , buffeting Julie as she moved across to the back door . |
| 9 | With characteristically bad judgement , Charles now turned back to the Scots , with whom he made a secret treaty under which the Solemn League and Covenant would be confirmed by King and Parliament , and presbyterianism would be established in England for a limited period . |
| 10 | Campbell now turned back to the water . |
| 11 | There was intense concern over the financial and social costs of absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees who now flooded in from the East , but West Germany seemed in an excellent position to exploit the likely expansion of trade with Eastern Europe in future . |
| 12 | She now swung round from the table and , thrusting her head out towards her daughter , she almost hissed , ‘ What do you expect ? |
| 13 | Although now swallowed up in the borough of Rochdale , Middleton people forever affirm their loyalty to Manchester , a city to which they naturally belong . |
| 14 | Maybe it 's in the re-discovered Viking city , now covered over by the Civic Offices . |
| 15 | A major row now blew up between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | Mr Brocklehurst , on the other hand , now looked round at the girls , and almost jumped in surprise . |
| 17 | Nutmeg now strode off down the street towards Scruffy 's house . |
| 18 | She now lay back on the couch and , staring towards the fire , she said , ‘ Been a funny house , this , held so many lives and hardly any of them happy , except my mother 's . ’ |
| 19 | He now smiled down into the wet , tear-stained face , saying , ‘ You 're going to be all right . |
| 20 | Alderson is revealingly described : ‘ poor old John Alderson [ has ] gone careering off the rails , [ and is ] now shacked up with the liberal party … an intellectual liberal reformer with radical ideas [ whose ] philosophical mumbo jumbo , often incomprehensible , and not very original , did nothing to impress ’ . |
| 21 | It was Rodrigo 's actions that now stood out in the notice of the people : it was El Cid 's name they called in the streets . |
| 22 | The two submarines which had lain alongside Omega at the start of her watch now stood off in the loch , still as two sentries , awaiting Taureg 's arrival , and she wondered how any man could volunteer to serve in such a craft ; how he could live in quarters so cramped , with no privacy at all . |
| 23 | In large part , they were ; the government now stood back from the operation , and the ‘ private ’ middlemen and cutouts took charge of it . |
| 24 | Ianthe Broome , Daisy Pettigrew , Sister Dew and one or two others whose names she could never remember , now sat down round the table and began to discuss the final arrangements for the bazaar , which had always been exactly the same and always would be , except that from one year to another a pint more or less milk might be ordered for the teas . |