Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if they followed an older , slightly more direct road , it still amounted to a total of about thirty-three miles . |
| 2 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 3 | Hayward and Day were obviously actresses who still clung to a perception of Hollywood stardom that no longer existed . |
| 4 | I managed to grab a seat , or a seatette , for what I still regarded as a trip to Bangkok ( that is , a trip to your auntie might take , not Timothy Leary ) . |
| 5 | Her theory had been proved , yet it still seemed like a fairy story . |
| 6 | At one end of this dim room was an open fireplace , in which a few huge logs still smouldered in a bed of white ash ; on either side of this were two heavy , curved and padded armchairs , covered in velvet , a dark charcoal colour , pattered with dark purple flowers , a kind of glamorised fin-de-siècle bindweed . |
| 7 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 8 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 9 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 10 | In her heart , Tallis had known that Scathach would not wait for her , but it still came as a shock to find that he had betrayed his word to her . |
| 11 | Despite becoming constant companions , she says his marriage proposal still came as a shock . |
| 12 | But it still came as a surprise when she angrily pushed away the unfinished lasagne and stared at him directly . |
| 13 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 14 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 15 | It was a nuisance that the Telegraph was so vague about her address — she was n't even sure whether Herefordshire still existed as a county — but perhaps Bridget would have more exact details for her next day . |
| 16 | In 1986 , the Committee on Finance for Industry , an arm of the National Economic Development Office emphasised that although lending facilities were becoming more available from the banking system , a major problem still existed with a need for a greater proportion of equity funding for small businesses . |
| 17 | Then the horse plunged as Jones shook the reins to get rid of the swaying woman who still hung like a limpet , and Anmer rolled over towards the inside rails with Jones underneath . |
| 18 | Dad steadied the bottom of the ladder but it still swung about a bit which really frightened me . |
| 19 | Ironically , Still started as a manager after injury wrecked his playing career after only one League game — for Orient in 1967 . |
| 20 | It was not difficult for Lewis to find his way to the Kemps ' home in Cherwell Lodge , the ground-floor flat on the extreme right of the three-storey building , since it was the only window in the whole street , let alone the block of flats , wherein electric light still blazed at a quarter to one that morning . |
| 21 | Kylie wrote regularly to the Riddifords and also her great aunt , Dilys Evans , a sprightly 80-year-old who still worked as a waitress in the town of Maesteg . |
| 22 | The restaurant changed , as did the maître d' , but he still watched like a hawk and swooped with a pained query if you did n't savour every mouthful or tried to hide a tough end of meat under your lettuce . |
| 23 | But D'Oyly 's informant still insisted on a difference in kind as between transactions within the caste , that is with kin , and transactions with members of another caste , that is with non-kin . |
| 24 | Even after six months , it still felt like a mistake . |
| 25 | And then he caught sight in the bathroom mirror of the collapsed features , the swollen neck and ragged grey hair of the old man upon whom he still looked as a stranger . |
| 26 | She still looked like a child . |
| 27 | I still looked like an extra from Les Miserables . |
| 28 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 29 | Dexter had been to the hospital where Nowak still lay in a coma . |
| 30 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |