Example sentences of "[pron] still [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I still got that feeling that we lost something . |
| 2 | But I still ran 20.51 seconds for a personal best , so I was happy . |
| 3 | The Grant Hall Hotel was next door to Zion United Church where I still spent many weekday evenings in boys ' work , and it was now handy to finish at the church and then cross over to the radio station for the late night shift . |
| 4 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 5 | I still had that hurdle to overcome . |
| 6 | Some years earlier , I had lost almost 2st ( 12.7kg ) from my heaviest weight of 10st 3lbs ( 65 kg ) , but I still had revolting hips and thighs as you will see from my ‘ before ’ photograph . |
| 7 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
| 8 | I still had this idea that my weight was too personal a topic for other people to talk about . |
| 9 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour — to be a woman in control but sexy and fun . |
| 10 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour . |
| 11 | An amazing difference occurred ; the guitar suddenly became cleaner , clearer when played acoustically and through an amp , plus I still had full use of the tremolo unit . |
| 12 | But I still had more room than I needed in that so that was quite useful . |
| 13 | Even though I still imagined prehistoric fish swimming through its pergolas , the whole place now seemed almost natural , like a well-planned country club . |
| 14 | I still needed extra information on clothing etc … |
| 15 | Keys I get them out I still lost those ones that I got with the matches . |
| 16 | He employed a professional photographer to photograph the bags and other serious irregularities in the dumping : these included reject brake pads lying exposed on the site , as well as a container which still contained substantial amounts of asbestos . |
| 17 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 18 | One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously . |
| 19 | Second , the enormous increase in international liquidity generated by the exodus from the dollar ( see above ) meant that the countries which still had weak payments balances could borrow easily . |
| 20 | The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth . |
| 21 | The government of Pakistan , which still exerted great influence on Afghan affairs , had endorsed the terms of the Peshawar Accord during a visit by Rabbani on June 24 . |
| 22 | Purgatory , according to Roman Catholic faith , was a state of suffering after death in which the souls of those who died in venial sin , and of those who still owed some debt of temporal punishment for mortal sin , were rendered fit for heaven . |
| 23 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 24 | For the last seventy-three years the Bishop of Durham was a scholar ; five bishops in succession ranging from one who was among the leading minds of Europe to one who was more a publicist than a scholar but who still had academic interests . |
| 25 | His aim was to boost flagging sales , and for the first time during the recession new cars came within the grasp of those who still had some cash . |
| 26 | After his death the standard was taken up by Serov , who still commanded 3,000 men as late as January 1922 . |
| 27 | Then , suddenly , it was the vets , Paul Turner and David Waters , who still controlled Welsh rugby . |
| 28 | Early in September the Secretary of State ( now Lord Listowel ) paid a brief visit With the dual object of tidying up loose threads in Britain 's future relationship with Burma while also endeavouring to mediate between the AFPFL government and the Karens , who still attached great importance to the British connection . |
| 29 | Since peasants who still possessed any seed reserves or livestock were excluded from relief , they were compelled to sell them off in some cases in order to survive . |
| 30 | For example , a sufferer from alcoholism who still used sleeping tablets , a sufferer from any of the eating disorders who is not physically abstinent from sugar and white flour , a sufferer from workaholism who exchanges work for physical exercise in similar quantities and a sufferer from the family disease who still searches incessantly for treatment or other solutions to the problems of the primary sufferer rather than accept his or her own powerlessness over the lives of other people and accept the need for personal recovery , are all still in the active phase of the disease even if they are regularly attending meetings of an appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |