Example sentences of "still [vb past] in 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 | You 're always saying you wished you still lived in the country . |
| 3 | I heard the news from a guy I knew who still lived in the village . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was no good , she thought , for Signor Fixit to pretend that he still lived in the age of Just William . |
| 6 | Since then she had married someone else and been widowed , but she still lived in the district with their daughter , Anna . |
| 7 | Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was early , and dew still lingered in the grass . |
| 10 | With the exception of one cottage , where a light still shone in the window , all the others were in total darkness . |
| 11 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 12 | The day was high and bright , the salt tang seasoning the after-pulse of summer heat which still hung in the air , but nothing could shift my sense of despondency , nagging depression . |
| 13 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
| 14 | When people still fished in the lake two carp were caught joined together with golden chain around their necks . |
| 15 | Mandeville still sulked in the hall whilst the old beldames in Southgate 's chamber cackled with laughter and asked if I wanted them to wash me ? |
| 16 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 17 | Morning came , but Oliver still lay in the field as if dead . |
| 18 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
| 19 | Asik still lay in the road . |
| 20 | The TSR 2 did not establish a happy precedent , though the full implications still lay in the future . |
| 21 | But in 1869 , the year of the completion of the first American transcontinental railway , the greatest examples of the picturesque still lay in the future . |
| 22 | Einstein 's famous equation E=mc 2 already existed but its full import for the release of vast energies in radioactivity and other nuclear processes still lay in the future . |
| 23 | Now of course at this point , with many singers , one would have to change key , go into the minor , and report that , though this may have been the vocal prime , interpretative maturity still lay in the future , and that for artistic satisfaction one would have to turn to the well-known recordings of later years . |
| 24 | Even in eastern Europe the active anti-semitic campaigns , which were to stimulate the mass emigration of the Jews , still lay in the future . |
| 25 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 26 | I had always considered him , and still did in the absence of any other evidence , to be a sincere person , one who would do anything to fulfil his promises . |
| 27 | And meanwhile , a ruthless killer still lurked in the darkness . |
| 28 | And yet the personal bitterness still rankled in the heart of the fire , and as it had kindled it , so might it sour it and put it out . |
| 29 | His body still throbbed in the aftermath of their interrupted lovemaking , and that too was irritating the hell out of him . |
| 30 | A few faint diamond droplets of water still glittered in the hair that whorled sensuously around his jewel-hard nipples . |