Example sentences of "[adj] still [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Most speakers did this , but some still persisted in reading from a prepared script without raising their heads from the lectern . |
2 | Cameron looked round the neighbouring fields , some shorn close and yellow , some still fledged with feathery grass and sparkling with daisies and buttercups . |
3 | For a start , each of the sectors has its distinctive livery , though much of the old corporate blueand-grey still survived into 1990 . |
4 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
5 | Kuusinen 's report to the XIII Plenum of the ECCI in December 1933 still spoke of " the hypocritical and treacherous sophistries of social democracy " . |
6 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
7 | But in 1869 , the year of the completion of the first American transcontinental railway , the greatest examples of the picturesque still lay in the future . |
8 | The DoT told the House of Commons transport committee that nearly 1300 joints had been replaced between 1975 and 1982 and a further 750 still had to be replaced . |
9 | The roar of a meteorite blazing through the air in Quatermass II still had to be accomplished by scratching a thumb-nail across a microphone mesh . |
10 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
11 | Antoine Eyeless still smiled at what he saw ; he hardly bothered to mumble an absent reply . |
12 | If Veblen 's book continues to be read this is partly for its unconscious humour but partly for the comfort , however misplaced , which it offers to those still mesmerized by egalitarian ideas . |
13 | Towards the edge of the wood , where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond , only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog 's mercury and oak-tree roots . |
14 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
15 | Luke laughed with genuine amusement , but something hard and unyielding still lay behind the surface gleam in his eyes . |