Example sentences of "[adv] still [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the noises outside still seemed to him to be those of a wood in February . |
| 2 | In the mid-1980s the Daily Telegraph probably still spoke for the great bulk of Middle England , when , after Britain had yet again resisted international calls to reduce pollution , it announced : |
| 3 | Any unmixed foil unsold by the buyers clearly still belonged to the Dutch sellers by virtue of the first part of clause 13 . |
| 4 | She looked puzzled for a moment , and I wondered if she really still worried about this ancient happening . |
| 5 | Possible claims for compensation could not be faced by most councils , and in any case , there still had to be worked out a coherent land use strategy for the development of the urban fringe . |
| 6 | … there still survived of the Lord 's family the grandsons of Jude , who was said to be His brother , humanly speaking . |
| 7 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 8 | Yet still gaped for , dry of lip . |
| 9 | The Quartets are all the more impressive for having this political dimension worked into them , yet still subordinated beneath the religious scheme . |
| 10 | The stick had broken in the middle , and one half still lay beside the murdered man . |
| 11 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 12 | The House of Lords held that the hirer had not ‘ bought or agreed to buy ’ the piano which therefore still belonged to the person from whom it had been hired . |