Example sentences of "still had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 2 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 3 | After James II had been overthrown , a new system of government began to develop under which Parliament met every year and voted taxes annually , the King chose ministers who were acceptable to Parliament , the administrative departments became independent of direct royal intervention ( though the King still had a great deal of authority over his ministers ) and Parliament took responsibility for national financial policy . |
| 4 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 5 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 6 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 7 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 8 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 9 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 10 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 11 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 12 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 13 | This was the worst part as by now everyone was tired , hungry , needed a long hot bath and still had a long drive home ; however spirits were cheerful and by the 29th May we were ready to do it all again . |
| 14 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 15 | Next morning I cleaned up the vomit and got myself ready for school but I still had a nasty taste in my mouth and I was hot and achey . |
| 16 | It preferred to work within a party which still had a certain amount of prestige . |
| 17 | Despite this assistance , and a temporary improvement in coffee prices , by 1989 the economy had not revived significantly and the country still had a substantial debt problem . |
| 18 | The house still had a good warm loft , so we all used to sleep there . |
| 19 | It still had a good edge . |
| 20 | He still had a good forty minutes to prove the power of diplomacy . |
| 21 | Frustrating it was , but somehow I still had a good night out . |
| 22 | At the end of the night , the luck was with the opposition , but Roy and Judy still had a good night out . |
| 23 | Afterwards he dismissed the defeat as no more than ‘ irritating ’ and said he still had a good chance of winning the match . |
| 24 | But the public still had a good deal of confidence in the armed forces and the police , although both were held in less regard than they were ten years ago . |
| 25 | Fabia discovered that she still had a broad smile on her face a minute after the call was ended . |
| 26 | But perhaps they still had a future life together . |
| 27 | On important matters , Lord Denham still had a vast hereditary army of Etonians to call upon , Chesterton 's ‘ great democratic protest against the eternal insolence of the aristocracy of talents . ’ |
| 28 | Even with these stocks , we still had a poor customer delivery performance due to our long manufacturing lead time . |
| 29 | And yet … and yet … we still had a life-form reading from that pile of rubble . |
| 30 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |