Example sentences of "he still [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still burned to preach the Gospel to the poor and to help them . |
| 2 | Then he had to remember that even after the rounds had been allocated and the stetches accounted for , he still had to include the acre or so of headland , the land on the outside of the field where the ploughs turned , which had to be ploughed the last of all . ’ |
| 3 | But he still had to break the news to Auntie Jean . |
| 4 | He still had to have a medical . |
| 5 | But he still had to find a wife . |
| 6 | He still had to distinguish the miracles of Christ from the effects of magic , but this he did by stressing that the former were beneficial whereas the latter , especially in the case of witchcraft , could be detrimental . |
| 7 | However , he still managed to keep the weapon pointing loosely in his direction . |
| 8 | Just as he was about to travel to Paris in November , to open a book exhibition and make a speech at the Bibliothèque Nationale , he caught a heavy cold which turned to bronchitis with congestion of the lungs ; a nurse was called in and he took a course of penicillin , but he still managed to make the journey . |
| 9 | If he still opted to run the 400m , he would probably make it through to the semi-finals , but he certainly would not win . |
| 10 | He still refused to let the old woman call in any other doctor , and set his own leg , though not quite perfectly ; hence the limp . |
| 11 | He still wanted to hear every little thing I could remember about it . |
| 12 | In August he joined the Fabers on holiday in Sussex , but he still wanted to complete a rough version of the whole play by late summer . |
| 13 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 14 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 15 | But he still liked to use the window , maybe just to maintain the impression that we mere humans were here to serve him . |
| 16 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |