Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 A new girl asks , ‘ You still got that man in there ? ’
17 You still got that hanky ? ’
18 Yeah , but then you still got six wages to pay out , have n't ya .
19 ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship .
20 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 .
21 She was thirty-six when she cleared out and she 'd had three kids , but she still made younger women look and feel like there was no contest . ’
22 Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman .
23 She still got that thing all over her ?
24 She still had Caribbean colonies but the bulk of her possessions were in Africa , where she ruled Algeria , part of Gambia , the French Congo and French Somaliland and was about to acquire ( in 1881 ) a protectorate over Tunis .
25 She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul .
26 she still had that cold
27 So when mentioned that she still had 4 tickets left , I took the plunge and said yes we would be interested .
28 She expected to live her life as though she still had four maids with me doing their work . ’
29 Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world .
30 By anybody 's reckoning , she still had another week in which to go through agonies about it .
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