1.  A biology student with a stutter now occupied the back room.

2.  A block of flats now occupies the site.

3.  A cap like a puddle now lies at his feet, to receive the odd penny.

4.  A certain sort of grimness came into my voice, as if expediency had now to take over.

5.  A childhood friend, Bob Jakin, who is now a packman, offers Tom and Maggie ten guineas he has earned.

6.  A commercial filtering medium now on the Market combines activated carbon and an ion exchange resin.

7.  A conical party hat was now perched on top of the grey stubble, with the elastic stretched under my chin.

8.  A cooking pot hung on a tripod though the logs beneath were now blackened cinders.

9.  A country renowned for its love of large, close families now has the lowest birth rate in the developed world.