Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 2 | Even if they followed an older , slightly more direct road , it still amounted to a total of about thirty-three miles . |
| 3 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 4 | The result of all this was that , although at the end of the century a third of the population still lived below the poverty line and the diet of the poorest included items such as white bread , condensed milk , and vegetable oil margarine , the earnings of a Lancashire cotton operative in 1913 permitted him ‘ a breakfast of coffee or tea , bread , bacon and eggs — when eggs are cheap — a dinner of potatoes and beef , an evening meal of tea , bread and butter , cheap vegetables or fish , and a slight supper at moderate price ’ . |
| 5 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 6 | You 're always saying you wished you still lived in the country . |
| 7 | I heard the news from a guy I knew who still lived in the village . |
| 8 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 9 | It was no good , she thought , for Signor Fixit to pretend that he still lived in the age of Just William . |
| 10 | Since then she had married someone else and been widowed , but she still lived in the district with their daughter , Anna . |
| 11 | Hayward and Day were obviously actresses who still clung to a perception of Hollywood stardom that no longer existed . |
| 12 | But many more thoughtful pacifists still clung to the hope that the appeasement of Germany 's Versailles grievances would serve to moderate , or even undermine , the Nazi regime . |
| 13 | Something of the Mamur Zapt 's old aura still clung to the post . |
| 14 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
| 15 | Back at the car , the two tarts still slouched against the wall next to the railway embankment . |
| 16 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 17 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 18 | Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends . |
| 19 | Although Marx highlighted the necessity of the proportionality between use-values in such exchanges in the passage just quoted from , in his own analysis he still concentrated upon the creation of value and surplus-value in his examination of the capitalist production process . |
| 20 | Morrissey 's songwriting still stemmed from the angle of poverty and this early repertoire would last for eighteen months of success . |
| 21 | I managed to grab a seat , or a seatette , for what I still regarded as a trip to Bangkok ( that is , a trip to your auntie might take , not Timothy Leary ) . |
| 22 | The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames . |
| 23 | She wrenched her face away from his , her breathing fast and shallow as she stared up at him , her pupils still dilated from the passion he 'd stirred in her . |
| 24 | So essential did this communication seem to the West Midlands survey respondents , that the repetition that it would inevitably entail for the manager , as different volunteers come in each day , still seemed worth the effort . |
| 25 | Her theory had been proved , yet it still seemed like a fairy story . |
| 26 | As the prosecution still seemed in no hurry to have a trial date set , Chief Judge Moran overruled the government 's objections and ordered that Coleman 's legal passport be returned , subject to his giving the prosecutor two weeks ’ notice of his intention to leave the country and to his reporting in to his pre-trial services officer every other week by telephone . |
| 27 | At one end of this dim room was an open fireplace , in which a few huge logs still smouldered in a bed of white ash ; on either side of this were two heavy , curved and padded armchairs , covered in velvet , a dark charcoal colour , pattered with dark purple flowers , a kind of glamorised fin-de-siècle bindweed . |
| 28 | A pre-filter of simple gravel ( we have tested a prototype GSM — not the new model — which still suffered from the age old problem of clogging , which also afflicts simple foam pre-filters ) . |
| 29 | But the people still came to the box office , paid the ever-increasing charges for admission , and stayed to laugh . |
| 30 | Melody still came to the farm to help out with dairy work , but these days , much to Seb 's relief , she seemed content just to be near him , making no embarrassing demands . |