Example sentences of "[conj] still [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 2 | That endurance was not a quality that induced ready sympathy from a class that still looked on the constable as a kind of public flunkey . |
| 3 | Giolitti also harnessed the nationalist fervour that still existed by embarking on a colonial war for Libya . |
| 4 | That is , by focusing on the superficial manifestations of culture , multiculturalism failed to address the continuing hierarchies of power and legitimacy that still existed among these different centres of cultural authority . |
| 5 | Another inch , another foot , another yard — on they crawled through the wet , cold mud across a terrain that still belonged to no man . |
| 6 | Ellen was laughing as she tried to stop the gunk that still spewed from the cylinder . |
| 7 | Duroc 's team had got the power on , and he had sent exterminator packs into the streets to begin the task of clearing out the vermin that still clung to the ruins . |
| 8 | I leaned panting against a lamppost , while Doris tenderly removed the segments of toffee orange and chocolate cake that still clung to my suit . |
| 9 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 10 | But when I said as much to Mala , as a joke to ease the tension that still showed in her eyes , she merely called me an unrepeatable name and stalked away to her cabin again . |
| 11 | Carrington , when they landed , was tinged with blue at his extremities , and could not hear his own teeth chattering because of the engine-thunder that still rang inside his skull . |
| 12 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 13 | She gave him a little push and , in a daze , he followed Dorothy and one or two of the others up the stairs to the room that had been and still seemed to be Bunty 's . |
| 14 | Although the widespread disruption of the earlier 1949 crisis was avoided , the load which had to be shed in the severe winter of 1951 ( 2109MW ) was in absolute terms the highest ever , and still amounted to 17 per cent of the load on the system . |
| 15 | Three months after buying and taking delivery of a car , the purchaser discovered that it had not belonged to the seller and still belonged to its original owner . |
| 16 | He moved his head slowly and still looked at me in silence . |
| 17 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 18 | Expressed as crude annual rates per thousand , they fell from 23 in 1861–65 to 12 in 1931–35 , but have since shown no further improvement due to the ageing of the population , and still stood at 11.4 in 1988 . |
| 19 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 20 | I had always considered him , and still did in the absence of any other evidence , to be a sincere person , one who would do anything to fulfil his promises . |
| 21 | The same types of generalised character continued and still appeared in Petipa 's many ballets , Fokine 's Pavillon d'Armide , Ashton 's Cinderella and MacMillan 's Romeo and Juliet . |
| 22 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 23 | With great glee Odd-Knut told us that the fat Germans showered ten times every day for a week and still reeked of rotten whale . |
| 24 | The measures addressed ( i ) restoring peace in the region of Sarajevo ; ( ii ) re-opening the Belgrade-Zagreb motorway ; ( iii ) the security of humanitarian convoys ; ( iv ) the situation of " pink zones " in Croatia ( Serb-populated areas in Croatia not covered by the UN peace plan , but still patrolled by the UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia — UNPROFOR ) ; and ( v ) placing Croatia 's Prelavka peninsula under UN forces . |
| 25 | Gardner , now recovered from serious injury but still niggled with a nagging wrist , and his fellow-Australian Mick Doohan lead the Rothmans Honda challenge . |
| 26 | It would seem obvious that at least some of those practitioners had not in fact vanished at all , but still existed at the time of the Crusades . |
| 27 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |
| 28 | At this time her intravenous infusion was removed and she seemed more relaxed but still complained of pain from her wound . |
| 29 | He had tried to remain calm but still seethed with fury at Maude 's continued intransigence in the face of his pleadings and questions : her only answer would be to bite her lip , shake her head and turn away in floods of tears . |
| 30 | Two bays in Sutton depôt were screened off and such office work as still had to be done locally was done there . |