Example sentences of "still [vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This emerges clearly in its tortuous attempt to grapple with what it still regarded as a fundamental difference between ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ West Indian ’ patterns of educational performance . |
| 2 | I managed to grab a seat , or a seatette , for what I still regarded as a trip to Bangkok ( that is , a trip to your auntie might take , not Timothy Leary ) . |
| 3 | We still behaved as if to sleep were a waste of time . |
| 4 | But it still came as a surprise when she angrily pushed away the unfinished lasagne and stared at him directly . |
| 5 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 6 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 7 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 8 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 9 | In her heart , Tallis had known that Scathach would not wait for her , but it still came as a shock to find that he had betrayed his word to her . |
| 10 | Despite becoming constant companions , she says his marriage proposal still came as a shock . |
| 11 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 12 | In 1885 the lying-in ward in the Strand workhouse was located immediately above the female insane ward and despite the effort to reform workhouse nursing during the 1860s , elderly pauper women still acted as midwives and childminders . |
| 13 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 14 | His eyes roved to the perimeter fences where the lights still shone as if in defiance of the coming day . |
| 15 | For the bellman still existed as the means of such communications . |
| 16 | It was a nuisance that the Telegraph was so vague about her address — she was n't even sure whether Herefordshire still existed as a county — but perhaps Bridget would have more exact details for her next day . |
| 17 | Ironically , Still started as a manager after injury wrecked his playing career after only one League game — for Orient in 1967 . |
| 18 | Kylie wrote regularly to the Riddifords and also her great aunt , Dilys Evans , a sprightly 80-year-old who still worked as a waitress in the town of Maesteg . |
| 19 | She still felt as if food would choke her . |
| 20 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 21 | And then he caught sight in the bathroom mirror of the collapsed features , the swollen neck and ragged grey hair of the old man upon whom he still looked as a stranger . |
| 22 | He built roads , schools , hospitals , and sent students abroad for further education , most to France and some to Germany , which many Iranians still saw as their friend simply because it was the traditional enemy of both Britain and Russia . |