Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | You 're always saying you wished you still lived in the country . |
| 5 | I heard the news from a guy I knew who still lived in the village . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was no good , she thought , for Signor Fixit to pretend that he still lived in the age of Just William . |
| 8 | Since then she had married someone else and been widowed , but she still lived in the district with their daughter , Anna . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Something of the Mamur Zapt 's old aura still clung to the post . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Back at the car , the two tarts still slouched against the wall next to the railway embankment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Morrissey 's songwriting still stemmed from the angle of poverty and this early repertoire would last for eighteen months of success . |
| 18 | The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | But the people still came to the box office , paid the ever-increasing charges for admission , and stayed to laugh . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 25 | It was early , and dew still lingered in the grass . |
| 26 | They were quiet at this early hour and the cobbled stones still glistened from the night 's rain . |
| 27 | But the young crowd still danced to the music of Guy Lombardo , Ben Bernie , Rudy Vallee and Duke Ellington . |
| 28 | He still turned on the charm , however . |
| 29 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 30 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |