Example sentences of "still [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her theory had been proved , yet it still seemed like a fairy story . |
| 2 | The smell of juniper , burned earlier as incense , still lingered like the warm breath of the forest in summer . |
| 3 | Then the horse plunged as Jones shook the reins to get rid of the swaying woman who still hung like a limpet , and Anmer rolled over towards the inside rails with Jones underneath . |
| 4 | The restaurant changed , as did the maître d' , but he still watched like a hawk and swooped with a pained query if you did n't savour every mouthful or tried to hide a tough end of meat under your lettuce . |
| 5 | She was evasive when asked if she still felt like killing herself . |
| 6 | Even after six months , it still felt like a mistake . |
| 7 | He always felt better there , and he still felt like a good wash ; he needed to get rid of all this sweat and clamminess , wash all the dust and the lead off his face and hands . |
| 8 | Comforting images of Sir Len batting still fell like a warm velvet hood over Yorkshire eyes . |
| 9 | I still looked like an extra from Les Miserables . |
| 10 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 11 | She still looked like a child . |
| 12 | Possibly it was secondhand , but it still looked like five bucks ' worth of book , I reckoned . |
| 13 | The square , severe face had softened , although the ill-shaved chin still looked like granite . |
| 14 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 15 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
| 16 | Yet he still looked like an academic , or a businessman , with those thick-rimmed glasses and the glossy hair carefully sleeked back over his ears . |
| 17 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 18 | It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage . |
| 19 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |