Example sentences of "he was still [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In seeing the importance of La Rochelle Richard had shown a good , if over-ambitious , grasp of strategy , but he was still no match for his father . |
| 2 | When the game was adjourned after 60 moves and six hours play , he was still a pawn behind but is now within sight of salvaging a draw . |
| 3 | He was still a favourite with her sisters and brother and he was Helen 's principal source of news about her home . |
| 4 | But although Mungo was a cousin , he was still a mere acquaintance ; for the moment her loyalty was bound to lie with Vic . |
| 5 | ‘ He had his flaws , but he was still a great teacher . ’ |
| 6 | Early on , Mary Pat Kelly became fascinated by what she read about the film which Scorsese made when he was still a student . |
| 7 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 8 | And facing the fear of the bees helped prove to himself that he was still a man . |
| 9 | It was through a friend who knew Morrissey five years previously and , although he had n't seen him since , knew that he was still a prominent writer . |
| 10 | While he was still a child , the family 's black servants had taught him to make clay models of animals , using thorns for their horns , and how to paint on stones using natural colours . |
| 11 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |
| 12 | He gave me an orange card that advertised his status as PROFESSIONAL SURFER. but he was still a child at heart and surfing was still a game . |
| 13 | But he was still a politician . |
| 14 | According to Mr Hornsby , ‘ One of the investors was a client of Clark Whitehill and at an early stage while he was still a client , the firm wrote to him saying if he did n't declare what his interests were , they would have to inform the Revenue . ’ |
| 15 | He ran towards him as soon as he came in sight , and he was still a long way from home when the father first spotted him ( Luke 15:20 ) . |
| 16 | In America , Mario knew nothing but success and when I last saw him with Karl Haas at the Meadowlands , a world away from FI , he was still a happy man , still at ease with himself and without regrets . |
| 17 | But while he was still a long way off … |
| 18 | He was still a familiar Hollywood figure in his nineties , with a home in Bel-Air , and received an honorary Academy Award in 1984 . |
| 19 | At that time , he was still a Party member , believing it could be reformed from within . |
| 20 | It was bound to worry her , as he was still a patient and I felt she had more than enough on her plate already without my adding anything . |
| 21 | But he was still a haberdasher 's assistant . |
| 22 | Bramwell died while he was still a young man , but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift . |
| 23 | The promotion was nothing more than a device to give Richard Sharpe some status on the Prince of Orange 's staff , but so far as Sharpe himself was concerned he was still a Rifleman . |
| 24 | ‘ There was a press conference , ’ says Alex Neil , viceconvenor of SNP , ‘ and he was asked if he was still a nationalist . |
| 25 | ‘ Finzi lost several close relatives during the First World War , and I think that his pacifist stance developed while he was still a young man , and of course , so many influential writers and musicians had lost their lives in the trenches — take Arthur Butterworth , for example . ’ |
| 26 | In October 1922 he was still a bright and energetic undergraduate with enthusiasms for Dryden and Carlyle . |
| 27 | The event was significant , for it followed hard upon the death in April of King John II in England , where he was still a prisoner . |
| 28 | Sir Gregory took no pleasure in the arrangement , however : although he believed the schism between England and Rome had been a fatal mistake , he was still a Cornishman and loyal to his country , if not greatly enamoured of Elizabeth . |
| 29 | Peter , born into a working-class family in Edinburgh , had barely known his mother , who died when he was still a baby . |
| 30 | It is said that , notwithstanding the order for possession , he was still a statutory tenant . |