Example sentences of "it now [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 2 | Well , it now seemed that there was someone he wanted to see in Glasgow , so he was taking this chance to fit that in . |
| 3 | It now seemed that Watt was well on the way to developing the engine for the commercial market . |
| 4 | The Collector 's mind wandered again as he thought of the baptism of his own children how long ago it now seemed that the eldest had been baptized ! |
| 5 | It now seemed that military action to push Tito 's forces out of the area might be the only course . |
| 6 | In a press conference in Rabat on Aug. 14 Hakim said that the attitude of the Algerian government , and specifically of Defence Minister Khalid Nezzar , had changed , and that it now recommended that a " rapid settlement " with Morocco be found . |
| 7 | It now appeared that he was an eager moth to Amaranth 's flame . |
| 8 | It now emerged that the new National Rivers Authority had warned MAFF that the voluntary approach was ‘ an insufficiently secure base ’ . |
| 9 | Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations . |
| 10 | Its support had been visibly waning , and it now collapsed and found itself suspended or abolished in the republics . |