Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | This epilogue is included in still fewer manuscripts than the shorter prologue . |
| 2 | She pressed a hand to her bosom to try to still the wild fluttering of her heart . |
| 3 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 4 | Meanwhile NeXT Computer Inc chief Steve Jobs looks to still have a real hate on for Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 5 | Goosebumps coarsened his sleek skin , and he tried to still a trembling in his limbs . |
| 6 | Drawing on her own ragged breath , Theda tried to still her shivering limbs . |
| 7 | Amy 's is still at school , so that 's four I can think of still at school . |
| 8 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 9 | May these , as we go to still higher energies , in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles ? |
| 10 | I would also point out that the inequality will increase further with the change to council tax since the banding will result in still greater contributions from the rural areas where house prices are inflated . |
| 11 | What is significant , however , is that few of the grant-aided organisations that we came from still exist today . |
| 12 | By early summer it had moved to still more opulent quarters in Hanover Square . |
| 13 | Insp Jaggs said : ‘ It is still subject to negotiations with the magistrates courts committee but we hope to still have use of the cells on a normal court day — Thursdays . ’ |
| 14 | They , too , chanted a trance-inducing song — and their swaying arm movements sought to still the " invisible waters of space " which a dead king must cross . |
| 15 | He was seducing her already , pulling her close , and there was nothing she could say or do to still the instant leaping hunger he incited . |
| 16 | Glamis Castle is most famous for its association with Macbeth , and Shakespeare 's hero is said to still bemoan the murder of King Duncan , appearing to walk on the roof , taking a route known as The Mad Earl 's Walk . |
| 17 | Taylor 's Level progressed very slowly and was thought to still have about 20 fathoms to go . |
| 18 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 19 | That was going to be in May so we needed it to ship in April so I said , well you 've got to you 've got to still finish it at the same time . |
| 20 | Integrative does not , however , mean cohe-sive ; rather , the new position leads to still more sophisticated forms of internal and external contradiction and relationships , exhibited in part through more developed emotions , such as guilt and mourning , as the infant deals with the contradictory nature of the mother . |
| 21 | Mitch agreed with still a great deal of awe in his voice . |
| 22 | I look forward to her performances on the Government 's front bench ’ ) then attacked the Labour Party , sacked the Party 's advertising agency , and called for still greater efforts from the Party 's rank and file . |
| 23 | But they could also switch on a constitutional warning light about future treaties , as yet unwritten , calling for still closer European integration . |
| 24 | Indeed , one might hope for still more in the way of functional explanation much of the syntactic machinery of a language seems to be concerned with the linear re-organization of material in sentences ( as in passive or topicalized constructions ) , a re-organization which does not seem substantially to affect the ( truth-conditional ) semantic content . |
| 25 | Mrs June Goodier , one of the organisers , said they were delighted with the amount raised with still more money to come in . |
| 26 | Appropriately enough Di Leonardo 's first gesture , a hand raised to still the clamour , looked not unlike a blessing . |
| 27 | Especially in the ‘ new nations ’ , political parties which emerged from the independence movements have either consolidated their position , or have been challenged and replaced by still newer parties , or destroyed by military coups . |
| 28 | Miserable Madge — Dame Edna 's long-suffering bridesmaid , played by still silent Emily Perry — takes viewers on a guided tour with Edna at her bitchiest revealing the victim 's most intimate secrets . |
| 29 | ‘ This should call for still more aspirin . ’ |
| 30 | She obeyed and he watched with still , dark eyes until she was as far as she could get from the trembling animal . |