Example sentences of "[adv] she still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she still was . |
| 2 | Perhaps she still yearned for him , he thought with a pang of anxiety . |
| 3 | Perhaps she still is n't entirely convinced . |
| 4 | So she still might go up . |
| 5 | Although she had moulded herself into the demure and restrained wife suitable to Stephen 's position , deep down she still possessed the wild spirits which had led her into Sir William Forster 's arms . |
| 6 | Yes , they 've sti they 've stayed together she still , mark you , in the letter she does come across as a misery guts . |
| 7 | Although there was not one single reason why Harry might suddenly see her not as a sister or friend but as a woman he might fall in love with , deep down inside she still hoped that this unlikely miracle could occur . |
| 8 | Technically she still has some rough edges — a peremptoriness in her phrasing , an uncertain control over her own force - but the full easy strength of her dancing and the scale of her projection promise important things to come . |
| 9 | On her odd nights off she still managed to keep some of the barracks satisfied . |
| 10 | Two years later she still can not afford to get a divorce . |
| 11 | No doubt she had felt safe : probably she still had his old typewriter , not greatly used since the separation . |
| 12 | Also she still hoped to rid herself of her burden , which had persisted in her despite Paul 's nightly penetrations and her own constant daily walking , as if that would shed it ; walking , as now , with the almost waddling gait of a heavily pregnant woman . |
| 13 | When he went there at 7.30pm she still had not arrived . |
| 14 | Polly let her breath out in a whoosh of relief , looking down to check how far she still had to go . |
| 15 | It was queer , how well she still knew him . |
| 16 | Today she still insists they were wrong . |
| 17 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 18 | She spoke very seriously , not joking at all , and her eyelids dropped down over her weirdly magnified eyes , thinking about trying , how she had tried , how she still tried to make her pony , Midnight , win . |
| 19 | Maybe she still had a chance with him . |
| 20 | Reluctantly , but then she still loved Anna , although she had begun to judge her . |
| 21 | So my mum went out but then she still had to read it all because I was under-age and she had to be there . |
| 22 | Turning away , she smiled when Cissie began softly singing , and her heart was filled with joy that at least she still had her and Richard . |
| 23 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |
| 24 | ‘ Then , when I came out — and I must have looked dreadful — there she still was , the baby in one arm , scribbling madly on a sheet of paper with the other . |
| 25 | Perhaps that was why she still thought they were alive . |
| 26 | Which is why she still prefers not to speak of them . |
| 27 | But she was n't planning to go to her parents — I know because I rang them on Tuesday when she still had n't turned up . ’ |
| 28 | Another undated scrap about Ivy must date from about this time , when she still invited people to luncheon : |
| 29 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 30 | Catriona Stewart sells her patch boxes to some of the most exclusive shops in the country , yet she still works at the kitchen table ‘ with meals , toys and people all around ’ . |