Example sentences of "[pron] still [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position .
2 Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night .
3 She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes .
4 The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow .
5 It still burned with a harsh , blinding glare and through it she could see vague shapes , presumably the others .
6 The United States was similarly dismayed , for it still hoped for a Labour electoral victory and an eventual political settlement with Jordan .
7 I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed .
11 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 !
12 He still looked like a romantic lead .
13 One and a half hours later , as he still sat on a high stool at the bar , he looked down and saw the fingers of a beautifully manicured hand against his left arm , and felt the ghost of a touch of the softest breast against his shoulder .
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