Example sentences of "they still [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They still had friendships . |
| 2 | And they still had ration books when I was a kid . |
| 3 | Honestly , people talked about the kids today as though they were all Dior models , but they still had spots and puppy-fat just like kids always had , and always would have . |
| 4 | The French were the first to object : they still had qualms about German rearmament . |
| 5 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 6 | Nevertheless they still represented items of heavy capital expenditure , and still required a data processing department to be responsible for them . |
| 7 | They still spent Christmas quietly and had a big house party for the New Year . |
| 8 | One of the rebel leaders , former Maj. Hugo Abete , who along with several of the other mutineers had also been pardoned by Menem for involvement in previous rebellions , claimed that as they still recognised Menem as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces their action could not be described as a " coup " . |
| 9 | They still exchanged gifts and trade with the Emperor ; they still had the interest and friendship of Pope Leo , even though for a year the Pope had been not in Rome but in Germany , caught by the cry for a mediator between attacking Germany and defending Hungary ; pressed by the fighting in Italy to beg help against the triumphant Normans . |
| 10 | Even when your children grew up they still made demands . |
| 11 | Mr and Mrs M still continued to take an interest in the family , to offer them friendship ; they still wrote letters , and sought answers to a number of questions on proper procedures . |
| 12 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 13 | He saw how , though they still wore silks , the style had changed ; had been simplified . |
| 14 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 15 | Bouchard 's studies of identical twins separated at birth and brought up in different countries , classes and cultures , showed that they still shared similarities in actions and habits despite separation . |
| 16 | At the civic receptions they still sang God Dave the King , but we were no longer Jolly Good Fellows . |
| 17 | The Chinese may not be the force they were , but they still beat England easily in the last match at Bletchley Sports Centre this week — good match it was too . |
| 18 | But even with England manning the barricades so heroically , they still needed luck to hold on . |
| 19 | On radio , in final few days of the campaign to elect America 's 42nd President , they still found time to talk to Stephen Kaplin , a vampire and head of the oldest vampire institute in the world . |