Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 3 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 4 | It still burned with a harsh , blinding glare and through it she could see vague shapes , presumably the others . |
| 5 | The United States was similarly dismayed , for it still hoped for a Labour electoral victory and an eventual political settlement with Jordan . |
| 6 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
| 12 | 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 . |