Example sentences of "still [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we still promised we 'd see nanny and we have n't , and we still promised to go to aunty 's and we have n't . |
| 2 | He found that the circumstances which had arisen were not foreseeable at the time of the contract but he still decided to take into account supervening events : this made the contract unenforceable and unreasonable . |
| 3 | You knew with being pregnant , if you were sick or anything , you still had to go to classes . |
| 4 | The scheme , which still had to go before parliament , had the backing of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 5 | The scheme , which still had to go before parliament , had the backing of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 6 | I was pleased about that because I still had to contend with Skipper when I went to Uncle Geordie 's . |
| 7 | ‘ I still had to get to New York where my plane was due to leave in about two hours . ’ |
| 8 | In short , a European parliament still had to come into existence . |
| 9 | Coal and flour supplies still had to come by cart , the flour deliveries to Cheltenham being transported by a three horse team and covered wagon . |
| 10 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 11 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 12 | Besides , she still hoped to hear from Nicky . |
| 13 | I stayed in London for some time , but I still wanted to go to sea . |
| 14 | It was noted that a sizeable minority of the Shop still wanted to fight for differentials . |