Example sentences of "[adv] still [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All was so still she could hear the tick of a beetle |
| 2 | There seems to be a ring of light round everything — It is still and sunny — so still you could hear a spider spin . |
| 3 | so still I could hear each set of ripples |
| 4 | I played for a while , and then I stole up to look at her , because she was so still I thought she had fallen asleep , but her eyes were wide open , and there was colour , all rosy , high on her cheeks . |
| 5 | That shoulder obviously still him a problem he seems to be holding it a little bit awkwardly as it comes in to Speedy now . |
| 6 | yeah yes I wondered if David would be on bus , I saw Wendy having a he worked later today because he 's got so much done on front of the er that weather he could n't er , do any decorating outside still we never got nobbled down street providing the er canvassers |
| 7 | And there with the heat on still it all just burnt to hell |
| 8 | A little still she strove and much repented And whispering ‘ I will ne'er consent ’ consented . |
| 9 | Still still I think we all I tell you , about forty . |
| 10 | Later still they stroll a little , among the other strolling couples in the dusk . |
| 11 | Later generations spread south as far as the tip of South America ; later still they reached similar latitudes in southern New Zealand . |
| 12 | Eventually things got cool enough for the protons and neutrons to fuse and form atomic nuclei ; later still it was possible for electrons to cling to the nuclei , thus creating atoms . |
| 13 | Anyway , that was the theory about her disappearance and it changed from being a theory to being referred to as what had probably happened and then later still it was accepted . |
| 14 | Later still it was found covering extensive areas of the sea floor south of Ireland . |
| 15 | At first I was humiliated to tears ; later I became hardened ; later still I accepted it as a fact and did not even try to deny it . |
| 16 | But later still he admitted he 'd had his doubts . |
| 17 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 18 | Later still he was well known for his work in education . |
| 19 | Later still he may train himself to eradicate the desire or aversion itself , releasing himself from one causally necessary condition of facing facts , so that the formula is no longer directly applicable ; but that will be in the service of other ends , and unless he can discover some new way of validating them these too will be spontaneous goals selected from the rest by thinking within the frame of the same formula . |
| 20 | Later still he got an oil engine ; and people at that time could buy both coal and oil from the miller . ’ |
| 21 | Later still he said : ‘ Honestly , Jannie , nobody watches this sort of programme apart from the relatives of the performers . ’ |
| 22 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 23 | Your are n't half losing weight though still you ai n't getting your down periods now are you ? |
| 24 | If you go in there and stay perfectly still you 'll see numerous varieties — and if you can make it before daylight you 'll be almost deafened by a dawn chorus . |
| 25 | Probably has n't still I do n't think . |
| 26 | No I w are you , you do do n't suppose you 're , well still I can use my pass ca n't I ? |
| 27 | O Little Town of Bethlehem , how still we see thee lie . |
| 28 | They would see how still he could sit ! |
| 29 | Years earlier he had resided briefly at a clinic with Vivien , where Robert Sencourt claimed to have first met them both : and earlier still he had spoken of a mental condition of ‘ long-standing ’ . |
| 30 | Sometimes still I see your arms jerk out |