Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Watkins put forward his observations regarding remnants of prehistoric alignments in Britain he ran head-on into official archaeological thinking which still believed in the Piltdown Man . |
| 2 | He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it . |
| 3 | … there still survived of the Lord 's family the grandsons of Jude , who was said to be His brother , humanly speaking . |
| 4 | I still went to the US though , and caddied for Andy North , but I got plenty of chance to talk to Sandy that year ( 1980 ) and struck up an acquaintance with him . |
| 5 | The withdrawal meant that the eastern port of Trincomalee was the only major town still patrolled by the IPKF . |
| 6 | The measures addressed ( i ) restoring peace in the region of Sarajevo ; ( ii ) re-opening the Belgrade-Zagreb motorway ; ( iii ) the security of humanitarian convoys ; ( iv ) the situation of " pink zones " in Croatia ( Serb-populated areas in Croatia not covered by the UN peace plan , but still patrolled by the UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia — UNPROFOR ) ; and ( v ) placing Croatia 's Prelavka peninsula under UN forces . |
| 7 | On Feb. 14 an agreement was signed in Geneva by Iran and Iraq , under the auspices of the ICRC , to bring to completion the repatriation of 20,000 prisoners of war from both countries who still remained from the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 8 | Each of the retentionist members of the Labour Cabinet in 1947/8 who still sat in the Commons voted for abolition . |