Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be even nicer to think he was trying to make her jealous because he still cared for her and not for pure spite , and it would be nice if she sobered up and faced life 's harsh realities ! |
| 2 | As the first axe cut into the Tree , a great wailing cry of agony rent the thick stifling heat of the workshop and Nuadu knew at once that the Tree had been taken down while it lived and while the naiad still dwelled within it . |
| 3 | If Veblen 's book continues to be read this is partly for its unconscious humour but partly for the comfort , however misplaced , which it offers to those still mesmerized by egalitarian ideas . |
| 4 | In spite of his bitter criticism of his father , he still asked for help from him . |
| 5 | Erm still got for Sanyos . |
| 6 | But you still got ta pay up |
| 7 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 8 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 9 | still got to be there for it . |
| 10 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 11 | But , she said I 'm pleased with him so far , but we still got to be careful that 's why she made him have this collar . |
| 12 | There are things certain things I 'm committed to and to have time off means I still got to be able to do those things . |
| 13 | And you still got through the ? |
| 14 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 15 | Profits still tumbled from £68m to £33m but that includes £8m of redundancy costs . |
| 16 | The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding . |
| 17 | As the path wound behind a clump of sparse trees man and beast disappeared but Mr Dakin still gazed after them , listening to the clip-clop of the hooves on the hard ground . |
| 18 | At G.Q.G. the propagandists — still deflated from their bludgeoning over Douaumont — seized on the German blunder and ensuing attempts at justification with shrieks of joy . |
| 19 | But the white paper , published in July after five months of lobbying , still amounted to the most radical shake-up of the legal profession this century . |
| 20 | Although the widespread disruption of the earlier 1949 crisis was avoided , the load which had to be shed in the severe winter of 1951 ( 2109MW ) was in absolute terms the highest ever , and still amounted to 17 per cent of the load on the system . |
| 21 | The economies , however , still amounted to only £56 millions … |
| 22 | Even if they followed an older , slightly more direct road , it still amounted to a total of about thirty-three miles . |
| 23 | Forcing the subject to use an acoustic strategy , by making the task one in which he had to indicate whether the terminal phoneme of one letter 's name was the same as that of another ( e.g. B and G have the same terminal sound , B and M do not ) , still led to a RVF advantage . |
| 24 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 25 | HOWEVER MUCH THE hotel maid sprinkled her lemon scouring powder , the salle de bains ( so designated by a chipped blue-and-white oval enamel plaque ) still smelled of stagnant drains , as if it functioned as an extension of the narrow street outside , where a section of the gutter exuded a steady reek of staleness , sweetish-sour , and not entirely unpleasant to Miranda . |
| 26 | The little shed still smelled of those days when it had been used . |
| 27 | He kept the windows open because the car still smelled of Arabella 's perfume . |
| 28 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 29 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 30 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |