Example sentences of "still [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still made occasional trips to Brittany ; on the last of those , she fell ill and died 18 September 1939 in the Hôpital de Dieppe . |
| 2 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 3 | She was thirty-six when she cleared out and she 'd had three kids , but she still made younger women look and feel like there was no contest . ’ |
| 4 | He still made some shows of aggression , but more as a dangerous game than with wicked intent . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed as having Parkinson 's disease , but still became part-time coach with Sunderland before he was forced to quit the game as his condition deteriorated . |
| 6 | In fact the turn-out in 1979 was high and Mrs Thatcher still became prime minister . |
| 7 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 8 | Yeah , but then you still got six wages to pay out , have n't ya . |
| 9 | Still got one left . |
| 10 | A new girl asks , ‘ You still got that man in there ? ’ |
| 11 | You still got that hanky ? ’ |
| 12 | Still got that teacher accused of er insulting the kids at schools . |
| 13 | But I still got that feeling that we lost something . |
| 14 | She still got that thing all over her ? |
| 15 | Seven days later I went to court and still got refused bail . |
| 16 | still got some left . |
| 17 | still got this year 's . |
| 18 | We made amendments to our procedures on the advice of the support group , but we still expected negative comments . |
| 19 | But TV viewing still averaged 25 hours a week , said the report . |
| 20 | In 893 , Tsar Simeon appointed Clement to be the first Slav bishop of the diocese of Velika ( Titov Veles ) , but he still maintained regular contact with the Ohrid School . |
| 21 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 22 | For example , a sufferer from alcoholism who still used sleeping tablets , a sufferer from any of the eating disorders who is not physically abstinent from sugar and white flour , a sufferer from workaholism who exchanges work for physical exercise in similar quantities and a sufferer from the family disease who still searches incessantly for treatment or other solutions to the problems of the primary sufferer rather than accept his or her own powerlessness over the lives of other people and accept the need for personal recovery , are all still in the active phase of the disease even if they are regularly attending meetings of an appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 23 | But when his time was up , Gary Cannon still weighed 21 stone , instead of a normal 12 stone . |
| 24 | His doctors were amazed at the speed of his progress , but he still found some movements awkward on occasion . |
| 25 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 26 | The sad thing was , as I said before , his navigator was incapable — and I must say not good enough — to get him round the heavily defended areas , and so in two sorties he still sustained abnormal flak damage . |
| 27 | He had been the injured party when his marriage broke up and , in spite of everything , it was all too clear that he still retained strong feelings for the woman he had married . |
| 28 | It still retained such jurisdiction , and received some increase and confirmation of it , in the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | They still regarded these leaders as the main enemy . |
| 30 | They still played sickening games that I could n't avoid , like putting sperm on each other 's nose and calling one another Merkin and Muffin , for God 's sake . |