Example sentences of "[noun sg] still [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hekmatyar had refused to join the interim government , and his forces and artillery still threatened Kabul from the south . |
| 2 | In 1844 one auxiliary corps of artillery still stood guard on the city walls at night , and they disturbed many people with their noisy alerts . |
| 3 | His regular column on the London Literary Times had been axed , but the editor still chucked scraps of work his way . |
| 4 | Although silk prices fell after 1925 the additional cash income still cushioned farmers against the effects of a simultaneous fall in rice prices . |
| 5 | They had lapsed into everyday small talk , but a strand of their previous intimacy still infused Luke 's questioning . |
| 6 | He must have been about fifty summers old , his copper-coloured face was lined , his swept back hair silver-grey , but the moustache and the neatly clipped beard still showed traces of a golden youth . |
| 7 | Thus in 1985 the wealthiest 1% of the population still owned 20% of all wealth and the wealthiest 10% owned 54% , leaving the other 90% of the population with less than half of all personal wealth . |
| 8 | In this anaemic echo of her own box on the Moon , her body still had substance . |
| 9 | But the sign on the wall still said King Street , and Jacob presumed that as yet only members of the IRA and their supporters would call it by its new name . |
| 10 | It was evident to all the family that Stephen Lassiter still loved Tamar and that she , too , was happy . |
| 11 | Goma still showed signs of his beating when he was allowed to emigrate to France shortly afterwards . |
| 12 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 13 | Outside , in the rainy winter evening , the rush-hour traffic still clogged Jaffa Road . |
| 14 | By 1963 while the Christian Democratic Union still governed West Germany , the elderly Adenauer had been forced out of the chancellorship . |
| 15 | The tsar still shared Nesselrode 's view that the Turkish regime should be kept alive as long as possible , but he was determined not to be caught napping if the health of the " sick man of Europe " broke down irrevocably . |
| 16 | They lost height rapidly , but the pilot still had control . |
| 17 | Yesterday mystery still surrounded Bardot 's overdose with many people asking why the screen legend should try to take her own life at a time when she seemed to have found happiness with her new husband . |
| 18 | However , the overstretched executive still made £1.3m profit when he sold at 339p . |
| 19 | Rohmer still held Gilbert tight as he thrashed to be free . |
| 20 | My mother still had Christmas cards from them to the end of her life . |