Example sentences of "[pers pn] was still the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 2 | The early evening rush hour slowed my return to Stuart Street but I was still the first home to No. 9 , and even Lisabeth seemed to be out or at least locked in her cage . |
| 3 | His instincts told him she was still the same mad tomboy he had known before the war . |
| 4 | She was still the only female field operative in the organization but her gutsy determination and self-confidence had won over her male colleagues who now regarded her as an equal . |
| 5 | She had undergone a strange metamorphosis : from her waist upwards she was still the lovely girl everybody knew , but her lower body was now hairy and muscular , much like that of a chimpanzee . |
| 6 | ‘ She was still the mother of his children . ’ |
| 7 | To him , she was still the same Alyssia , and heaven only knew why he had slept with her . |
| 8 | As far as Luke was concerned , she was still the naïve , trusting fool whom he had left to weep in her bedroom . |
| 9 | Maybe he should go back , but inside him was still the lump of anger against them . |
| 10 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
| 11 | But it was still the boy he spoke to . |
| 12 | At the third last Rubstic was back-pedalling and it was still the two crocks — Bob Champion and Aldaniti — making the best of their way home from Royal Mail . |
| 13 | ‘ I went back not long ago , and it was still the coldest place on earth . ’ |
| 14 | It was still the best skateboarding magazine to date . |
| 15 | And though at Arsenal the manager continued in the role of club supremo cast by Chapman , elsewhere — with few exceptions — it was still the directors who had general control . |
| 16 | He worked hard as a stevedore on Sharpness docks , but it was still the thrills of life that kept him really alive . |
| 17 | Even if the cage owner was a small , weaker cat and the introduced male was large and powerful , it was still the owner which mounted and the visitor which crouched in the female fashion . |
| 18 | Maybe she wished it was still the young man who shared her bed instead of a man who-was almost old enough to be her father . |
| 19 | To Pamela 's disappointment she say that it was still the same red paperback . |
| 20 | But it was still the case that with respect to the School " now it is not a credit but a disgrace to us " . |
| 21 | By the beginning of the twentieth century the latter made up about 90 per cent of the population of the three western provinces , and between 60 and 85 per cent of Irkutsk , Transbaikal and Amur provinces , but in the enormous Yakutsk province and the far north-east it was still the non-Russian indigenous population which predominated , in a proportion of 13:1 . |
| 22 | The Spanish empire , which stretched over the American continent from California to the Straits of Magellan , was the most imposing political structure of the Western world ; to Napoleon it was still the greatest supplier of silver and to British merchants the greatest unexploited market . |
| 23 | It was still the case that a white-collar woman employee within the public sector ( including , now , the nationalised industries ) had reasonably good pension prospects provided that she completed a lengthy period of full-time service . |
| 24 | The system seemed quaint and inefficient in comparison with the microfilm and computer displays used by the library staff behind the checkout desk , but it was still the most convenient way of satisfying reader enquiries and it was a useful backup in case of computer failure . |
| 25 | We had a spectrograph when it was still the new wonder toy . |
| 26 | It was still the strongest weapon in my armoury but this time I added two pounds of black treacle to the mixture . |
| 27 | In 1904 D. G. Hogarth wrote that it was still the only source for many places . |
| 28 | But it was still the place . |
| 29 | Furthermore , at the time of writing it was still the " healthy " Meistersinger that in fact came first in his esteem . |
| 30 | still sore but it was still the same even with that . |