Example sentences of "still [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leibniz , unaccountably , still clung to the traditional idea of substance , notwithstanding his own " principle of indiscernibles " . |
| 2 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 3 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 4 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 5 | Any unmixed foil unsold by the buyers clearly still belonged to the Dutch sellers by virtue of the first part of clause 13 . |
| 6 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 7 | In each of these cases , therefore , the innocent purchaser acquired no title to the car which still belonged to the original owner . |
| 8 | On 21st September 1904 , the great Nez Perce headman suffered a heart attack while sitting beside the fire in the tipi at Nespelem that he still preferred to the white man 's house . |