Example sentences of "she [was/were] still [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had thrown herself into his arms and hugged him as if she were still a schoolgirl . |
| 2 | [ PAMELA begins to serve them with wine as if she were still a servant . ] |
| 3 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 4 | If she were still a person . |
| 5 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 6 | Xanthe did n't carry money , in this respect at least she was still a child . |
| 7 | Although she was trained , she was still a beginner — like me — and it was n't easy to settle her down in front of all those kids , who , naturally , were all pointing and whispering when we came into the classroom . |
| 8 | She was still a way from him when he stretched out his left hand to grasp hers from a distance . |
| 9 | Yanto grudgingly admitted to himself that she was also different by the fact that she was still a virgin . |
| 10 | Her outburst had at least got some of her anger off her chest , but she was still a prisoner , and when fresh falls of snow were forecast she felt near the end of her tether at the prospect of being trapped any longer at Rocamar . |
| 11 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 12 | ROCKER Bill Wyman has admitted knowing his relationship with Mandy Smith while she was still a teenager was ‘ morally wrong ’ . |
| 13 | While she was still a novice , Stephen insisted that her daily rides should be accompanied by a groom . |
| 14 | Sometimes she was still a stranger to him . |
| 15 | The Cheshire 12-year-old who tried to commit suicide told psychologists after said after the incident that she was still a chatline addict . |
| 16 | But she was still a creature of strong straight lines and planes and angles and she was still not smiling . |
| 17 | She was still a shade stiff but , due , no doubt , to the ointment , her bruises were considerably less painful and , her bandaged ankle stuck through the curtain , she even managed a shower of sorts . |
| 18 | She was n't actually there in nineteen twelve , she was still an undergraduate in nineteen twelve , but she became active in government about nineteen seventeen and , and her memories are very vivid . |
| 19 | ‘ She was still the mother of his children . ’ |