Example sentences of "still [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned from the window , back into the room that still smelled faintly of Isabel Lavender 's black coat and black feathered hat . |
| 2 | Not only had the Poles removed the bulk of their trade , but even the remaining Polish trade went to the Polish shipping firms who still operated out of Danzig , rather than to German concerns . |
| 3 | Because the brushes are so springy I was able to splay the hair , using a little force against the support , to distribute colour — the brush hair still bounced back into shape perfectly in spite of this forceful application . |
| 4 | But as for what she had exchanged it for — that still seemed more like fantasy than waking reality . |
| 5 | I still believed implicitly in Tony DeFries and I 'm not trying to put Tony down by this at all . |
| 6 | In spite of the fall , the Government still came in for criticism from opposition parties and trade union leaders , who pointed out that the total was still higher than this time last year . |
| 7 | Sunderland had a new manager to show off … a big crowd to shout them on … and the bounce of the ball … but Swindon still came out on top … mind you when Shaun Taylor gave away a penalty in the first half … things looked a bit dodgy … |
| 8 | Town were not at their best , that 's for sure , but they still threw enough at Derby to win . |
| 9 | When kept under conditions of constant light and temperature , they still turned up for meals at regular intervals . |
| 10 | Noreen stood back , biting her lip to watch , as the applause still rang out for Maria . |
| 11 | After three decades in an asylum he still talked intelligently about painting , read classical poetry , and played the violin . |
| 12 | By the end of the evening there was only one person in the room who still felt strongly about Seb living in Fern Cottage on his own . |
| 13 | She still felt somewhat on probation within the group : Sam had n't looked too keen when Evelyn had brought her in . |
| 14 | He still kept just in front of me . |
| 15 | Twenty minutes later Elisa was fully recovered from the incident although her arm still ached slightly under Dr Silvino 's expert bandaging . |
| 16 | But I still went out with Michael . |
| 17 | At Easter and Christmas I still went home to Cliff Top . |
| 18 | Though she set up house with him , she still went home to Eccles every Sunday for a traditional roast lunch with the family . |
| 19 | Mr Condon , 45 , currently Chief Constable of Kent who takes over as the Met 's youngest-ever Commissioner in February , added that bombs still went off in Northern Ireland despite having the army on the streets . |
| 20 | Rory still went occasionally to Mass with her , and sometimes , as a kind of acknowledgement of how different he was from Michael , she would talk to him about the Church , and its importance in their lives . |
| 21 | On this basis the UK had held its own relative to the USA over 25 years but had fallen below the average of the six , certainly below Japan , West Germany and France ; indeed Japan overtook the UK in 1972 , West Germany in the early 1960s , and France in the late 1960s , but on this calculation the UK still lay ahead of Italy . |
| 22 | And now , nearly twenty years after it was well and truly over , she sometimes still reeled late at night with not understanding . |
| 23 | The leniently-treated Sooner Still ran well at Doncaster a couple of weeks ago , but is often let down by his jumping . |
| 24 | We rushed to the river and jumped in the water , but my friend and I still ended up with stings that made our heads swell up . |
| 25 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |