Example sentences of "[noun prp] still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments . |
| 2 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 3 | Edward still watched from the doorway . |
| 4 | She smiled across to where Edward still frolicked on the sand . |
| 5 | Perhaps more important , and there are close parallels here to our critique of ethology and sociobiology , Freud still skirts round the difficult question of how primordial instincts are socially constructed . |
| 6 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 7 | The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person . |
| 8 | With Mola still pushing towards the city on its northern flank , Franco realized that he might not be the first Nationalist general to enter Madrid . |
| 9 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 10 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 11 | Melody still came to the farm to help out with dairy work , but these days , much to Seb 's relief , she seemed content just to be near him , making no embarrassing demands . |
| 12 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 13 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 14 | ‘ Ian still lives in the Scarborough area and naturally reckons first team action is better than playing in the reserves , ’ said McHale . |
| 15 | Mandeville still sulked in the hall whilst the old beldames in Southgate 's chamber cackled with laughter and asked if I wanted them to wash me ? |
| 16 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 17 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 18 | However , on Oct. 5 the Thai Foreign Ministry stated that Vietnam 's allegations were " groundless " and added that Thailand still operated under the principles of a joint communiqué signed in September 1978 [ see p. 29473 ] , which provided for " mutual respect for sovereignty and non-interference in each other 's affairs " |
| 19 | In addition to its own suspicion of the United States and its " dollar imperialism " it published an opinion poll on 11 March 1946 which demonstrated the strong sympathy which the USSR still excited among the British people for its part in the defeat of Germany . |
| 20 | Morning came , but Oliver still lay in the field as if dead . |
| 21 | He later became known as Magnus the Pious because of his unflinching devotion to the cult of Sigmar and to the ideals of nationhood which Sigmar still signified in the divided Empire . |
| 22 | I arrived in South Africa still stunned by the shock of hearing what my father had had to tell me , half expecting to find marriages being destroyed by outside parties everywhere I looked ! |
| 23 | ‘ The UK still relies on the mainframe batch system , with a Computer Associates general ledger , payables and receivables . ’ |
| 24 | This was inconvenient and too elongated and was soon superseded by a scheme involving the acquisition of sixteen houses that Sir Samuel Fludyer still owned on the south side of Fludyer Street , and the realigning and widening of Downing Street . |
| 25 | SDP left-wingers were more neutralist and anti-American than their leaders , and anxious to see more radical domestic reforms but Brandt feared that greater radicalism would alienate the FDP , on whom the SDP still depended in the Bundestag . |
| 26 | Graf 's withdrawal would be a major blow to Wimbledon , with Monica Seles whom she deposed from the top of the world rankings in Paris still recovering from the knife attack in Hamburg on April 30 . |
| 27 | She was beyond coping with it ; she had no intention of living there ; she had moved , instead , to an early eighteenth-century townhouse in the Faubourg Saint-Germain , a quarter of Paris still preferred by the pre-Napoleonic French aristocracy . |
| 28 | Irene still comes to the apartment but we never see her any more except by accident . |
| 29 | In spite of the technology being used on circuitry which is 30 years old Johnson still swears by the sound quality of the analogue master tape — and it was this sound which Arnold so praised . |
| 30 | From the sepoy lines they could see that the Residency had been abandoned , but a tattered Union Jack still flew over the banqueting hall . |