Example sentences of "still [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew Leslie 's fastidiousness in sexual matters too well to take the poem literally , but only as he intended that I should : that though he had met many other girls on his leaves in Alexandria and Cairo , he still cared only for me . |
| 2 | It would be even nicer to think he was trying to make her jealous because he still cared for her and not for pure spite , and it would be nice if she sobered up and faced life 's harsh realities ! |
| 3 | Most of them had to be introduced to one another by the referee yet they still stuffed four past us . |
| 4 | Both were presumably tenants as Charles Ballinger still owned the mill up to the 1850s . |
| 5 | The typical baron in 1945 still owned the majority of shares in his company , perhaps in common with his family . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although Tiller still produced the Winter Gardens show every year , he delegated more and more of the work there to his assistant directors as he was so busy abroad . |
| 8 | The world trade in manufactured goods doubled between 1900 and 1913 , and Europe still produced the bulk of what was sold . |
| 9 | As the first axe cut into the Tree , a great wailing cry of agony rent the thick stifling heat of the workshop and Nuadu knew at once that the Tree had been taken down while it lived and while the naiad still dwelled within it . |
| 10 | The idea of going back still made me nervous , though . |
| 11 | However , the overstretched executive still made £1.3m profit when he sold at 339p . |
| 12 | The skill and habit of a lifetime refused to desert her altogether now she had no need of it and Alida Thorne still made her own dresses . |
| 13 | He still made some shows of aggression , but more as a dangerous game than with wicked intent . |
| 14 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 15 | It was many years since Selwyn 's wife had persuaded him that it was not good manners to pick his teeth in company , but his lips still made the motions of mouthing a toothpick . |
| 16 | The tiff between John and Edward still made itself felt . |
| 17 | In those days many housewives still made their doorsteps shining white each morning . |
| 18 | But remembering still made her blush all over . |
| 19 | One still made her laugh : ‘ Have you ever tried writing a play ? ’ the little girl asked the dog who was typing on top of his kennel . |
| 20 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 21 | Many Dwarfs stumbled to the ground dead with Goblin arrows embedded in them , but more still made the gate . |
| 22 | The Duchess had sworn in a very mild tone , but her words still made Lord John bridle . |
| 23 | Even when your children grew up they still made demands . |
| 24 | I denied homosexual inclinations but he still made me bend down so that he could inspect my behind with a wooden spatula . |
| 25 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 26 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 27 | When he still made no move to accept Cohen 's offer , Joshua put the package on the tea-chest , held up his sandwich and uttered a short Hebrew prayer before putting it to his mouth . |
| 28 | The cruets were said to have been bought in the cause of saving the work of cleaning silver ones , but she still made the au-pair girls polish a hoard of Georgian silverware in the cellar every week . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , she had to retrace her steps several times , though she still made sure to pick routes which moved ahead of the breeze . |
| 30 | She still made occasional trips to Brittany ; on the last of those , she fell ill and died 18 September 1939 in the Hôpital de Dieppe . |