Example sentences of "still [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still got one on the , just a minute . |
| 2 | If 1 Samuel 4 left them asking whether they could still regard themselves as the people of God , chapters 5 and 6 reassured them that their God had certainly not gone over to the Babylonians . |
| 3 | The former England amateur international , who still plays himself in the Bluebell Over 40 league on a Saturday morning , has persuaded several ex pros to come along , including former Sunderland and Ipswich forward Eric Gates , Hartlepool manager Alan Murray , former Newcastle and Sunderland centre half Jeff Clarke , former Middlesbrough defender Dickie Rooks and former Newcastle striker Alan Shoulder . |
| 4 | ‘ Denbighshire can afford to lose by fewer than four wickets and still pip us on the calculation of wickets lost where the points are equal , ’ explained manager Jones , of Buckley . |
| 5 | Their manager , Graham Turner , had said before the game that Wolves could still make it into the play-offs , but this result has put paid to those hopes . |
| 6 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1861 the Slavophile Ivan Aksakov tried to dissuade students from engaging in disturbances by urging them to return to their books and to " study Russia and the Russian nationality ( narodnost ) , in order to fill the gulf which still separates us from the people " . |
| 8 | ‘ The first impulse of every critic of postmodernism ’ , Ihab Hassan recently suggested , ‘ is still to relate it to the semanteme it contains : namely , modernism ’ ( Hassan 1987a : 214 ) . |
| 9 | Tell yourself ‘ Writing this letter will be easy and fun ’ ( not that it ‘ wo n't be difficult ’ , or you still associate it with the word ‘ difficult ’ ) . |
| 10 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 11 | Her mother still helped her across the road . |
| 12 | Wisden says he is nearly 82 ; he still looks nothing of the kind , but lately he has started to feel it a little more . |
| 13 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 14 | Carole King , the sharpest female lyricist of all time , ponders going all the way and whether her lover would still respect her in the morning . |
| 15 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 16 | Haveing therefore an intire Confidence that his said Highnesse the Prince of Orange will perfect the deliverance soe farr advanced by him and will still preserve them from the violation of their rights which they have here asserted and from all other attempts upon their Religion Rights and Liberties . |
| 17 | Has age mellowed you , or do you still feel something of the vigour of the same emotions ? |
| 18 | Perhaps he still identified himself with the man who bought a duffel cloak for Alice Fell ( see Critical Survey , p. 118 ) ; he instructed his daughter to buy the child a doll — ‘ only let it be a good big one ’ . |
| 19 | That was going to be in May so we needed it to ship in April so I said , well you 've got to you 've got to still finish it at the same time . |
| 20 | It is perhaps appropriate that even the date of the birth of a personality who still eludes us despite the myriad of books written about her is uncertain . |
| 21 | She thinks she has learned to control it but the label sticks : ‘ Policemen still stop me in the street and say : ‘ Hello Janet , who have you hit today ? ’ ’ . |
| 22 | Minutes later , although we could still see nothing through the trees , we heard the dogs ' excited , nearly frantic , barking . |
| 23 | I could still see nothing but the spirals of desert dust . |
| 24 | He had fought off his anger , but Jenna could still see it at the back of his eyes . |
| 25 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 26 | Well I do n't see how , all you 've got to do is turn it upside down , you could still run it through the same way |
| 27 | It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice . |
| 28 | Oh we 've still got them in the demijohns yet |
| 29 | Do you want to borrow , well it 's on two tapes , well I 've still got it on the tapes if you want it , it 's quite a good quite a good film |
| 30 | You 've still got 'em round the dock now . |