Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of his bitter criticism of his father , he still asked for help from him . |
| 2 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 3 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 4 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 5 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 6 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 7 | Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses . |
| 8 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 9 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 10 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 11 | In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight . |
| 12 | He still drew from life , of men and women filing towards the mine shaft through the snow and of miners holding lamps , bent double under loaded sacks . |
| 13 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 14 | He still seemed in charge there . ’ |
| 15 | What little human warmth I required I garnered from the aunts and cousins , who still came to Cliff Top for their annual holiday . |
| 16 | Ruth wondered why people still came to Wickrithe for their holidays . |
| 17 | Ten per cent of its finances still came from government sources in the early sixties . |
| 18 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 19 | The ground still shook in time with the footsteps of the great beast . |
| 20 | Mr Browning should be sent for and with Ferdinando still convulsed with grief and rage there was no one to send but herself or Annunciata . |
| 21 | The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so . |
| 22 | Although many people suspected them to be lovers , Adam still insisted on secrecy . |
| 23 | And then we she got married we still kept in touch with one another and I got married and we did n't live far from one another . |
| 24 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 25 | The square , severe face had softened , although the ill-shaved chin still looked like granite . |
| 26 | Mr Blackman still proceeded with Art 1993 Chicago : The New Pier Show to take place in a temporary structure near the old Navy Pier . |
| 27 | I still dreamed of food and the convivial , outdoor feast , but I no longer took full part in the proceedings . |
| 28 | She still went to church occasionally , she loved the singing , and in spite of her husband 's example , she still told me ‘ Not to take the Lord 's name in vain . ’ |
| 29 | In spite of this partial acquittal Leese still went to prison . |
| 30 | But North still went in fear of ingratitude . |