Example sentences of "[pers pn] still [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 2 | She gave two sharp little nods , as if that finished the matter , which no doubt it did , except that I still looked for gaps in her defences . |
| 3 | Ellen was amused by my naïvety , claiming that if she dug deep enough she would probably discover that I still believed in Santa Claus . |
| 4 | I still dreamed of food and the convivial , outdoor feast , but I no longer took full part in the proceedings . |
| 5 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 6 | I said , " Yes-sir ? " as if I still worked for Hatch & Hodges . |
| 7 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 8 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 9 | She still stared at Alice , as if unable to believe what she saw . |
| 10 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 11 | her first film at the age of fourteen , when she still lived in Swindon . |
| 12 | She still went to church occasionally , she loved the singing , and in spite of her husband 's example , she still told me ‘ Not to take the Lord 's name in vain . ’ |
| 13 | Like most migrants , she still thought of Scotland as home and Britain as the homeland , although she knew she would never see her native country again . |
| 14 | Miss Ruth or Miss Joan , as she still thought of Mrs Lovell and Mrs Young , could probably do with a hand . |
| 15 | That she still believed in Allah and prayed regularly at the nearby mosque . |
| 16 | A pang of regret lanced through her as she recognised how little she still knew of Suzie 's innermost feelings . |
| 17 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ It would give you and Miss Liza ’ — as she still referred to Celia 's mother — ‘ a bit of a break . ’ |
| 19 | She still dated by Lothar 's reign-years : it was not clear in whose kingdom Uzès might end up . ) |
| 20 | She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow . |
| 21 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 23 | And then we she got married we still kept in touch with one another and I got married and we did n't live far from one another . |
| 24 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 25 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 26 | But they failed to do so , and when Henry returned to France he was able to clear the enemy from strongholds which they still held near Paris , including the formidable town and fortress of Meaux , before which he spent some seven months in 1421–2 . |
| 27 | In truth she was n't really interested in Taureg 's arrival , but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome , she supposed , for she still stood outside the real world , looking in ; a part of her still waited in Yeoman 's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening . |
| 28 | Ben is described variously as a ‘ merchant 's clerk ’ and as an ‘ outrider ’ , itself a dialect term used extensively in Somerset and elsewhere to describe a tradesman 's travelling agent — a meaning it still carried in New Zealand , for example , well into the 20th century . |
| 29 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 30 | Yet despite this being his long-term plan , he still thought of England as ‘ home ’ , of Alice and the Pritchetts as his ‘ family ’ , of Aubrey as his best friend . |