Example sentences of "[pron] still had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next morning I cleaned up the vomit and got myself ready for school but I still had a nasty taste in my mouth and I was hot and achey . |
| 2 | Despite this I still had a strong impression that the Principal was clearly in control of the centre and that he would be unlikely to tolerate breaches of the rules . |
| 3 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 4 | The problem was that I still had a Jamaican passport and to run in a major meeting like that it was necessary to become a British subject . |
| 5 | Frustrating it was , but somehow I still had a good night out . |
| 6 | No , that would be a false contrivance and anyway I still had a mad hope of catching that five-thirty ferry to Stornoway . |
| 7 | I was not keen to go yet because I still had a vivid memory of that hand . |
| 8 | I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work . |
| 9 | I still had an enormous block when I tried to think of John as a hostage . |
| 10 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 11 | It preferred to work within a party which still had a certain amount of prestige . |
| 12 | Out of the thirteen which still had a formal Railfreight allocation in 1989 , many had become specialised bases for traction belonging to a particular sub-sector . |
| 13 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 14 | Fabia discovered that she still had a broad smile on her face a minute after the call was ended . |
| 15 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 16 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 17 | She still had a few hours of useful painting time left , but now she could not concentrate . |
| 18 | Even with these stocks , we still had a poor customer delivery performance due to our long manufacturing lead time . |
| 19 | And yet … and yet … we still had a life-form reading from that pile of rubble . |
| 20 | Four of our six patients with active disease were on steroid therapy and they still had a greater absorption of PEGs than the patients in remission and controls . |
| 21 | But perhaps they still had a future life together . |
| 22 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 23 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 24 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 25 | The comparative absence of protest in the fifteenth century may be explained simply by the fact that depopulation was less of a social problem , and that if a lord evicted tenants , they still had a reasonable prospect of finding land elsewhere . |
| 26 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 27 | It still had a blackish colour but was narrower and less deep . |
| 28 | It still had a good edge . |
| 29 | The house that William had found was down one of the side streets and not so majestic , but it still had a fair bit of the Gothic about it , and the brass knocker on the front door had the face of an ogre . |
| 30 | This self-propelled weapon was not yet a serious threat ; it still had an effective range of less than a mile , but the tiny torpedo-boats which were beginning to make their appearance heralded a whole new range of warships for the future . |