Example sentences of "still [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a weird feeling to have only a layer of ice between you and the sea ; weirder still to drive out across the Baltic in a Volkswagen . |
| 2 | Now in his sixties , he still rode out with the Black and Tans , as wild and fearless as ever . |
| 3 | Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate . |
| 4 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 5 | Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door . |
| 6 | That day still stands out as the greatest day in my football life . ’ |
| 7 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 8 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
| 9 | If the girl avoids becoming trapped , through an unwanted pregnancy , into an unsatisfactory lifestyle with an unsupportive or absent marital partner , she may still break out of the adverse chain of events . |
| 10 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 11 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 12 | He was still pumped up after the brief battle . |
| 13 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 14 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |
| 15 | The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited . |
| 16 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 17 | You still finish up with the same amount . |
| 18 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 19 | The Athenians did not , however , lose sight of the Persian War which , in accordance with the propaganda of 478 , was still going on throughout the 470s . |
| 20 | Parts of the county are still sobering up from the unprecedented celebrations . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you still keep in with the great man Dander ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Still holding out for the twenty per cent , I see , Maurice . ’ |
| 23 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 24 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 25 | ‘ Now is the best time , ’ Athelstan replied , drawing closer , whispering into Sir John 's ear , conscious that Lady Maude was totally absorbed in the pageant before her whilst Benedicta , distracted , was still staring back at the admiring gallant . |
| 26 | Stalls are still set out in the open air and the market place is hemmed in by shops , banks and public houses whose frontages still respect the ancient property boundaries . |
| 27 | People still pay up despite the complete lack of ghosts . |
| 28 | But a new thought struck him — another murder might lead his superior to assume that Surere was , after all , still hiding out in the Southern Capital , and that , too , would hardly be to Merymose 's credit . |
| 29 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 30 | From now on applying any more brake really can spell disaster , for the normal mortal at least , because much of the weight is still thrown on to the front tyre and grip is scarce . |