Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |
| 2 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 3 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 7 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 8 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 9 | Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed . |
| 10 | But , despite the slump , profits in the six months to September still grew by a theoretical 5% to £10.26m ( true comparisons are impossible post-float ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Comforting images of Sir Len batting still fell like a warm velvet hood over Yorkshire eyes . |
| 13 | Gardner , now recovered from serious injury but still niggled with a nagging wrist , and his fellow-Australian Mick Doohan lead the Rothmans Honda challenge . |
| 14 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 15 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As late as the 24th , when it was obvious the whole French front was collapsing , the German storm troops still waited for a renewed artillery preparation , and then moved circumspectly , as if half-expecting to walk into some kind of –rap . |
| 20 | The late afternoon sun was beginning to lose its heat , but under its fading glare the waving grass of the plain still shimmered in a gray-green haze and Joseph 's unpractised eye could detect no movement . |
| 21 | The drive snaked across the flank of the hill to a levelled clearing which had once been the site of a mine ; a giant stack still stood within a hundred yards of their door . |
| 22 | 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 . |