Example sentences of "he still [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 2 | Although close to retirement , he still took an active part in teaching the University students , and the breadth of his knowledge embraced not only clinical forensic work , but also the most up-to-date laboratory tests . |
| 3 | Rincewind relaxed slightly , which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly . |
| 4 | When he still made no move to accept Cohen 's offer , Joshua put the package on the tea-chest , held up his sandwich and uttered a short Hebrew prayer before putting it to his mouth . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you coming ? ’ she asked , and when he still made no attempt to get up she said , ‘ What is it , why are you staring at me ? ’ |
| 6 | But he still made the best of his big moment by bounding on to the podium to collect his medal after the official ceremony was over . |
| 7 | He still nurses the hope that devolution and the decentralisation of power to the regions will stave off the need for changing the voting system . |
| 8 | Quickly switching the conversation , he addressed the next remark to Harry , saying , ‘ I wonder how the Duke is feeling today ; I wonder if he still thinks the exchange was worth it . ’ |
| 9 | But , the DSS said : ‘ If he still meets the criteria , he gets the money . ’ |
| 10 | Although he is king of Uruk , possessor of perfect beauty , laden with gifts by the gods and two-thirds divine , he still feels a need to set up his name ‘ in the place where the names of famous men are written … |
| 11 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 12 | He still wore the grey flannel trousers , white shirt and maroon pullover of his school , but his feet were bare . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry I disturbed you … ’ she began stiffly , then registered that he still wore the clothes he 'd worn earlier , minus the suit jacket and tie . |
| 14 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |
| 15 | But he still conveyed an easy-going personality and had a deceptively casual acting style that differed from Dustin 's volatile nature and the nervous intensity he invested in each role . |
| 16 | Although he knew very well he 'd lost the battle , he still felt a need to justify . |
| 17 | Although he was not as ill as he had made out to Elaine , he still felt a bit under the weather . |
| 18 | As for Matthew , the old man had to admit that , despite his anger at the boy for having deserted him , he still felt a murmuring of affection towards him . |
| 19 | Charles was in Australia when this particular bomb dropped , but he still felt the full effect of the fall-out . |
| 20 | He had been a heavy smoker all his life , however , and for a while he still felt the need for a cigarette before and after meals . |
| 21 | Ruth loved him as much as ever , and hoped against hope that he still felt the same way about her , but somehow , something had been lost . |
| 22 | Even if he still felt the same it was no good if I was going to drive myself mad by becoming obsessive . |
| 23 | He still felt the movement of the van and the racing motion of the imagined mowing as , in his turbulent mind 's eye that would not release its trapped images , he let go the clutch on the handle and the motor mower leapt and jolted into movement . |
| 24 | He still stressed the desirability of banning the fascists but he now stated that anti-semitism had added a new dimension to the problem since 1934 . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's different ; he started by coming to see father , not me , and he still spends an hour with the old man whenever he 's here . ’ |
| 26 | He still shared a bed with his girlfriend but stopped having sex with her , and then his girlfriend moved out . |
| 27 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 28 | Sometimes he still saw the brushstrokes , as it were , in this naked way , so that his earlier thoughts of this garden had to be undone , the idea of black wings to be stripped from the painted leafage , the vulgar idea of blood splashes washed off the notation of geraniums . |
| 29 | He still saw the Alliance " as a temporary co-operation to save democracy and peace " in which " the Labour Party should take the lead " . |
| 30 | But he still looked a little spiky . |