Example sentences of "still [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 2 | The cruets were said to have been bought in the cause of saving the work of cleaning silver ones , but she still made the au-pair girls polish a hoard of Georgian silverware in the cellar every week . |
| 3 | My ex and I still met every six months or so , I do n't know why . |
| 4 | At the end of the War , around a half of British households still lacked a fixed bath with hot , running water , but electricity played a part in changing this ( whether as the only heat source or as summer immersion heating to complement water heating by the more common coal-fired back boilers ) . |
| 5 | It was a shock , but while there were those who still lacked the Christian faith , it was a necessary shock . |
| 6 | In presidential and legislative elections held in May 1989 [ see pp. 36651-52 ] Menem defeated Eduardo César Angeloz of the UCR , and the Peronists became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies , although they still lacked an absolute majority . |
| 7 | you still got a stiff neck ? |
| 8 | We still got a big pile to stick in have n't |
| 9 | still got the real interest there |
| 10 | But he still conveyed an easy-going personality and had a deceptively casual acting style that differed from Dustin 's volatile nature and the nervous intensity he invested in each role . |
| 11 | More nobly ornamented and furnished then the castles they replaced , these houses still shared the abysmal sanitation of the latter , with poor privies and rush-strewn floors . |
| 12 | All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon . |
| 13 | The light from below conjured into sharp gold and black every subtlety of the great forehead , and made the cajoling mouth piercingly beautiful and kind , but the demon still inhabited the gaunt pits of his eyes . |
| 14 | Even when he was not striking the ball well , he still posed the biggest threat . |
| 15 | They still used the simpler armour found from the preceding century , with conical helmets padded or plated hauberks or jerkins , and fought with unprotected legs . |
| 16 | It is remarkable therefore that despite these two biases we still found a twofold difference . |
| 17 | It still helped the remote chance of getting people to come to the meetings . |
| 18 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 19 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
| 20 | She was too sore to want it inside her , and her mouth still retained the lingering taste of urine . |
| 21 | Guy caught his breath all over again , so captivated by the sweet face upturned to him that he missed the strangely puzzled wonderment in her wide-eyed gaze , his own eyes tracing features drawn with exquisite delicacy , though her gently flushed cheeks still retained the rounded curves of youth . |
| 22 | They still retained the faint aroma of Ludovico 's body . |
| 23 | A muscle jerked in his jaw , and although he still retained the humorous gleam it did n't quite warm his eyes . |
| 24 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |
| 25 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 26 | But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off . |
| 27 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 28 | In those days he still played a good deal of tennis . |
| 29 | Its practical effect was not very great ; but it began an attack on what radicals later came to call the ‘ old corruption ’ , the network of sinecures and jobbery which still played a large role in British political life . |
| 30 | As the fund entered its second century , it still played a vital role in the welfare of the patients . |