Example sentences of "still [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ CHAMPAGNE ’ CHARLIE STRIDES PURPOSEFULLY OUT OF THE WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT STILL PROFESSING HIS INNOCENCE |
| 2 | The mortar team are still lobbing their bombs into the enemy positions as we dash across the road and over a five-bar gate , then double along the hedgerow that runs alongside the road . |
| 3 | In those days many housewives still made their doorsteps shining white each morning . |
| 4 | The skill and habit of a lifetime refused to desert her altogether now she had no need of it and Alida Thorne still made her own dresses . |
| 5 | But remembering still made her blush all over . |
| 6 | They could still construct their own frustrations . |
| 7 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 8 | A scent like the roots of an oak in autumn , hard , but contaminated with the spores of fungi in the mouldering of ochre leaves that fell , layer upon layer , where branches of the Company still leached its old power to spread ever wider … . |
| 9 | OPSSAT still receives its funding resources from the Department of Social Security with whom it negotiates a finance budget and a staff allocation . |
| 10 | Sore eyes I may have , but at least I am not blind and can still darn my own stockings . |
| 11 | so we did n't open yours , and when you left , I thought oh no , they 're gon na think we 're really rude , because we still got their bottle of wine , and we did n't drink it . |
| 12 | she s still got her boots on , and they 're a bit muddy . |
| 13 | But he still got his picture of the beekeeper and his busy little bees . |
| 14 | still got his nice car |
| 15 | OVER 40 AND STILL GOT YOUR TOUCH . |
| 16 | er you may never of had a house at all and yet you still got your family |
| 17 | Still got your three piece suite |
| 18 | Still got your migraine ? |
| 19 | She still drives her car . |
| 20 | I 'm still eating my breakfast . |
| 21 | Good eighteen minutes past ten and you 're still eating your breakfast |
| 22 | Fribble , still eating his cheese , said , ‘ And the legend has never said a legitimate child . ’ |
| 23 | Jennifer Davies finds the Victorian fruit house at Chilton still proving its worth |
| 24 | That war is still going on , Jamie is still wasting his life on a childhood hatred and Edward Swift is still playing them off against each other from beyond the grave . ’ |
| 25 | Despite having thousands of years to get it right , many employers still deny their female staff time for one of the most natural of human experiences.But now a new EC directive is set to come into force to improve maternity leave rights . |
| 26 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 27 | You ought to keep in mind , though , that even if you have been constructively dismissed , an industrial tribunal might still regard your employer 's actions as fair . |
| 28 | She had been still recovering her wits when Elaine had been taken from the booth by two more of the misshapen , black-robed , gurgling Counsellors . |
| 29 | Room 89 is haunted , according to the security guard , by the ghost of an RAF batman who still brushes his master 's phantom uniform . |
| 30 | Constance still respected her friend and had a certain detached affection for her . |