Example sentences of "was still [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 For one thing , she was still here to do that job for her sister .
2 But the ‘ decay heat ’ from the reaction was still enough to cause the uranium fuel to begin to melt .
3 But there was still enough to enchant me .
4 Kimon 's prestige was still enough to get help voted , though he had first to beat back a prosecution for bribery over Thasos by Pericles .
5 She would have given anything to weep until she was sick , but the pain was still there to stop her .
6 She wished Dorothy One was still there to help , but she was determined to manage .
7 But as the year closed , the ‘ New Age ’ promised in It was still more to do with ley-lines and ‘ the ecstatic return of everything blessed ’ , as John Michel , the paper 's fixture on UFOs , Britain 's ‘ holy places ’ , and the ‘ centres and lines of latent power in Britain' , put it .
8 I could n't believe what was happening and yet there was still more to come .
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