Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] 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 Ostrich Inn still stands in the ancient village of Colnbrook near Slough . |
| 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| 4 | This was inconvenient and too elongated and was soon superseded by a scheme involving the acquisition of sixteen houses that Sir Samuel Fludyer still owned on the south side of Fludyer Street , and the realigning and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 | The tracks of the old South Brent to Kingsbridge line still run past the house , and the original station canopy survives . |
| 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 | However , with called up ordinary shares totalling nearly 274,000 from an authorised figure of 350,000 , the vast majority of DVR shareholders still fall into the category of casual supporters who bought a stake to help the Company succeed in running the original Dart Valley line from Totnes to Ashburton , and the later Torbay acquisition . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 11 | As of last week , all SCO engineers still assigned to the MIPS project — a paltry few by SCO 's own count — were redeployed to Intel development , now at least 150 strong , though SCO says it will attend the periodic meetings of ACE 's recently established executive board . |
| 12 | The penultimate verse tells how St Oswald still watches over the parishioners : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The old map refers to the southern section of Turnham Green as the ‘ Front Common ’ ( that on the north side of the High Road being referred to as the ‘ Back Common ’ ) and there existed , in Sutton Lane , overlooking the Packhorse Pond , ‘ The Chestnuts ’ , also Arlington House , with Arlington Park to the west , on the other side of the road from Fromow 's nursery , and the ruins of Heathfield House still shown on the road leading to Little Sutton and Dean 's Almshouses . |
| 15 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 16 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 17 | The Leeds boss still shudders at the memory of his old Sheffield Wednesday side going 4-3 down to Chelsea in a League Cup tie seven years ago after cruising at 3-0 up . |
| 18 | The body of Thomas Seton still hung from the gibbet . |
| 19 | So still the future of the Mappa Mundi still hangs in the balance . |