Example sentences of "still [verb] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They refused still to attend the kirk and word had got around that they had been married by ‘ The Prophet ’ . |
| 2 | He still nurses the hope that devolution and the decentralisation of power to the regions will stave off the need for changing the voting system . |
| 3 | She s still got the fag and matches in her hands , so I take them away from her . |
| 4 | This has little effect and the courts will still regard the contract as one contract ( albeit a severable one ) and therefore it is possible for a sufficiently serious breach to be a repudiation of the whole contract , Smyth ( Ross ) v. Bailey ( 1940 H.L. ) |
| 5 | A black mantle of pre-dawn darkness still cloaked the jungle and the rubber plantation villages when the Annamese cai who assisted the French plantation director and his European staff began sounding clamorous gongs outside the barrack huts . |
| 6 | Up to this point Bukharin still regarded the peasantry as being ‘ external ’ to the working class , and a source of ‘ petty-bourgeois economy ’ , a position he was later to modify . |
| 7 | And the man , apparently , still regarded the place as ‘ home ’ . |
| 8 | Formally the United States still maintained the myth that it would convert official holdings of dollars into gold at the old price of $35 , while informing other central banks that if they attempted to take advantage of this offer at all it would instantly be withdrawn . |
| 9 | Travel by train still holds the excitement and anticipation of a real journey . |
| 10 | the candidate still has the knowledge and skills gained previously through experience or qualification |
| 11 | ‘ You still want the bun and the biscuit ? ’ she had mocked . |
| 12 | She still needs the security and familiarity of the world she 's always known . |
| 13 | In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that . |
| 14 | So , even if we take the relatively easy step of opting for unleaded petrol , our cars are still polluting the planet and damaging our health . |
| 15 | For instance , it 's possible to bend the strings behind the slide , using the end joint on your first finger like a kind of mechanical lever , while still keeping the slide and the vibrato completely in tune . |
| 16 | The remaining rice in its unprocessed state still contains the bran and this is brown rice . |
| 17 | Fine works of art , carefully placed in an appropriate setting , may still animate the garden and constitute a vital part of its design . |
| 18 | For even as he recognised its horror he still retained the possibility that it might be available , as a way out . |
| 19 | They saw Billy and Mary appear from behind the island still thrashing the water as they moved towards them . |
| 20 | They still visited the cinema and the caelidhes so before long Anne 's life was as hectic as ever . |
| 21 | Slowly , still rereading the note and still working on his teeth , he wandered out of the room . |
| 22 | The wind still moved the grass and flowers , and there were no animals around ; even the gulls had n't spotted the carrion yet . |
| 23 | The next time you start your machine it will still show the lag or lead that it did before you tried to correct it . |
| 24 | Fergus , lying sleepless and alone in the Prison of Hostages , could still feel the pain and the bewilderment , and the terrible knowledge that he , who loved Ireland beyond measure , had been a part of her doom . |
| 25 | The heavy drone of the bombers still filled the air as they came in wave after wave , but the searchlights which criss-crossed the sky were almost lost against the fierce orange glow as Liverpool burned . |
| 26 | There is still the , the main focus of the scheme is still repaving the surface and tree planting . |
| 27 | This approach emphasises the ‘ state form ’ .9 Like most Marxist analyses , this approach still envisages the state as ‘ capitalist ’ : an apparatus caught up in and managing the social relations of capitalism . |
| 28 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 29 | Unix System Laboratories Inc still harbours the belief that COSE will eventually result in agreement on the kernel , namely System V.4 or its descendent . |
| 30 | Unix System Labs still harbours the belief that COSE will eventually result in agreement on the kernel , namely SVR4 or its descendent . |