Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 2 | The social worker was gradually able to undertake counselling about the feelings of grief Joan still had on the death of her first husband whom she dearly loved , and about her guilt in not being able to cope with Stanley . |
| 3 | I arrived in South Africa still stunned by the shock of hearing what my father had had to tell me , half expecting to find marriages being destroyed by outside parties everywhere I looked ! |
| 4 | This was inconvenient and too elongated and was soon superseded by a scheme involving the acquisition of sixteen houses that Sir Samuel Fludyer still owned on the south side of Fludyer Street , and the realigning and widening of Downing Street . |
| 5 | Among the French peasants of Village in the Vaucluse , Laurence Wylie still found in the 1950s that nearly all the older people were still at work . |
| 6 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 7 | In 1911 Mr Tom Hodge still presided over the firm bearing his name : a handsome , white-haired gentleman of fifty and the most conservative imaginable . |
| 8 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 9 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 10 | The penultimate verse tells how St Oswald still watches over the parishioners : |
| 11 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 12 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 13 | From the sepoy lines they could see that the Residency had been abandoned , but a tattered Union Jack still flew over the banqueting hall . |
| 14 | The body of Thomas Seton still hung from the gibbet . |
| 15 | So still the future of the Mappa Mundi still hangs in the balance . |