Example sentences of "[coord] still [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He moved his head slowly and still looked at me in silence . |
| 6 | 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as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gardner , now recovered from serious injury but still niggled with a nagging wrist , and his fellow-Australian Mick Doohan lead the Rothmans Honda challenge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At this time her intravenous infusion was removed and she seemed more relaxed but still complained of pain from her wound . |
| 18 | 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 . |