Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He fell back down on his knees and prayed , then , to his Jesus god , and she watched him , beating his forehead on the ground , where the marks of Sycorax 's rites still lay in charcoal tracks . |
| 32 | They passed the fountain , which still lay in darkness , having beaten Stephen and the team of electricians he had had working until minutes before the guests ' arrival — the one and only thing that was not finished . |
| 33 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 34 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 35 | She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow . |
| 36 | In April 1102 the pope still spoke of homage and investiture in equally uncompromising terms , but by the end of the year a change of emphasis is observable . |
| 37 | Thirty days after symptom onset , he still complained of weakness and myalgia , but his pneumonia had been cured , his oral candidosis had disappeared , serum p24 antigen was undetectable , HIV-1 antibodies were detectable by EIA and WB , CD4 and CD8 counts were 343/L ( 26.7% ) and 516/L , respectively , and his platelet count was 285×10/L . |
| 38 | At this time her intravenous infusion was removed and she seemed more relaxed but still complained of pain from her wound . |
| 39 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 40 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |
| 41 | When I was a schoolboy , elderly textbook authors still wrote about protoplasm although , by then , they really should have known better . |
| 42 | Of course , the effect produced by unbroken lines of gentlemen in evening suits , so outnumbering representatives of the fairer sex , was a rather severe one ; but then again , in those days , the two large chandeliers that hang over the table still ran on gas — resulting in a subtle , quite soft light pervading the room — and did not produce the dazzling brightness they have done ever since their electrification . |
| 43 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 44 | Even in a Protestant society , social and institutional pressures still tended toward integration . |
| 45 | Habib Olahi , a stocky man , still stood at attention , his eyes fixed on the rich carpet . |
| 46 | The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill . |
| 47 | Mrs Cullam still sat in front of the television , the baby asleep now in her lap , the dog lying across her slippered feet . |
| 48 | He had tried to remain calm but still seethed with fury at Maude 's continued intransigence in the face of his pleadings and questions : her only answer would be to bite her lip , shake her head and turn away in floods of tears . |