Example sentences of "still [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 1 Samuel 4 left them asking whether they could still regard themselves as the people of God , chapters 5 and 6 reassured them that their God had certainly not gone over to the Babylonians . |
| 2 | I would still chain myself to a disused railway line in Bacup for him , but the lad can do better . ’ |
| 3 | The former England amateur international , who still plays himself in the Bluebell Over 40 league on a Saturday morning , has persuaded several ex pros to come along , including former Sunderland and Ipswich forward Eric Gates , Hartlepool manager Alan Murray , former Newcastle and Sunderland centre half Jeff Clarke , former Middlesbrough defender Dickie Rooks and former Newcastle striker Alan Shoulder . |
| 4 | Before his horrific injury against Palace , Dublin must have still pinched himself after grabbing the headlines with his later winner at Southampton . |
| 5 | He still described himself as a private tutor and the purpose of his journey abroad as ‘ holiday touring ’ . |
| 6 | I still warm myself on memories of family parties where Uncle Brian would sing ‘ Unchained Melody ’ into a glass , Aunty Rosy would become more argumentative after her third sherry , Uncle Harold would lecture on the brilliance of Enoch Powell , and Dad would lead us in a community rendering of : |
| 7 | Although the band could now operate without digging into the personal pocket of Joe Moss ( previously he had financed all the band 's expenses ) , Marr , Morrissey , Rourke and Joyce still found themselves with little personal money . |
| 8 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 9 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 10 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 11 | Mary herself , in captivity in England but forever smuggling out letters and appeals , dealt slyly in shrouded half-promises and suggestions , but made one thing quite clear : she still regarded herself as rightful Queen of Scots and , even towards the end , offered no more than a grudging suggestion of James being ‘ associated ’ with her in ruling the country . |
| 12 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 13 | Perhaps he still identified himself with the man who bought a duffel cloak for Alice Fell ( see Critical Survey , p. 118 ) ; he instructed his daughter to buy the child a doll — ‘ only let it be a good big one ’ . |
| 14 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 15 | During his voyage from India , Chandrasekhar worked out how big a star could be and still support itself against its own gravity after it had used up all its fuel . |
| 16 | Do you still see yourself as a socialist ? |
| 17 | The tape was made collectively , and Siobhan still sees herself as part of an alternative to the mainstream . |
| 18 | That still projects itself along the rusting shaft . |
| 19 | They see the living room and its furnishings as a ‘ front ’ , one way in which individuals and families could both express themselves as individuals and yet still present themselves as part of a social group . |
| 20 | Well I 'm still getting myself in a tangle , like I was when I came . |
| 21 | We mentioned earlier in this chapter that some people feel uncomfortable or trapped by the public contract of marriage , yet still allow themselves to be married . |
| 22 | They were ordinary chaps who deliberately sold themselves short right down to their weedy name , an idea that still attaches itself to anything on the label . |
| 23 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 24 | Even though the arrangements made by London had gone wrong , she had still found herself in a position to fight the Nazis . |
| 25 | Confounded by this reply , Oscar looked across at the other man to see that he was n't looking at the stars at all , but was still busying himself with the body . |
| 26 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 27 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 28 | But he still surrounds himself with women and he still takes his camera everywhere , although now he prefers making commercials for Reebok and Virgin Airlines to taking pictures . |
| 29 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 30 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |