Example sentences of "still clung [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few petals still clung about his sleeves , caught in the rough weave . |
| 2 | How the leaves which still clung to the branches of the pear tree were silvered on their undersides . |
| 3 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 4 | To Zborowski 's annoyance , Modigliani still clung to his old habits in the cafés , making dozens of sketches and giving most of his work away or bartering it to buy drinks . |
| 5 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 6 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 7 | Her fingers still clung to the spokes , keeping one wheel out of action . |
| 8 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |
| 9 | Hayward and Day were obviously actresses who still clung to a perception of Hollywood stardom that no longer existed . |
| 10 | Cut off from God 's communion and divine love , the rebels still clung to their leader Lucifer , their fallen star , who still glowed with forgotten glory and the heat of defeated bitterness . |
| 11 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 12 | Ellen still clung to my arm . |
| 13 | They still clung to many of their old pagan beliefs and practices . |
| 14 | But many more thoughtful pacifists still clung to the hope that the appeasement of Germany 's Versailles grievances would serve to moderate , or even undermine , the Nazi regime . |
| 15 | Duroc 's team had got the power on , and he had sent exterminator packs into the streets to begin the task of clearing out the vermin that still clung to the ruins . |
| 16 | Unknown to the Orcs , the crown was working its power upon Azhag , for it was an ancient and evil device that once belonged to the Liche Lord Nagash himself , and his power and his spirit still clung to it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ She still clung to me , but the social worker was thrilled about it , she said it meant she 'd bonded well . |
| 19 | Some memory of magic still clung to it , and with my art there was enough ; he drank , looked into my eyes , and could never again think of any other woman . |
| 20 | Earlier that morning , she had piled the bedsheets in a corner of the room ; a sweet aroma of grapes still clung to them . |
| 21 | Leibniz , unaccountably , still clung to the traditional idea of substance , notwithstanding his own " principle of indiscernibles " . |
| 22 | The thing was wearing clothing still ; shreds of fabric still clung to it and were somehow interwoven with the grey and leprous flesh . |
| 23 | Edward 's shoes were dirty and bits of the Britches still clung to his trousers . |
| 24 | I leaned panting against a lamppost , while Doris tenderly removed the segments of toffee orange and chocolate cake that still clung to my suit . |
| 25 | The scent of shampoo , clean and tangy , still clung to him , but there was another more masculine note to the aroma , a note that made her heady with its faint hint of warm male skin . |
| 26 | Something of the Mamur Zapt 's old aura still clung to the post . |
| 27 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 28 | Her face stung ; she scrubbed handfuls of wind-blown snow on to her skin , knuckling at her eyelids where the enzymes still clung in crunchy clusters . |
| 29 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |