Example sentences of "still [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although if it 's still raining the ditch wo n't be too comfortable . |
| 2 | Yet a cursory look at these systems reveals that in practice the police still influence the process greatly . |
| 3 | The typical baron in 1945 still owned the majority of shares in his company , perhaps in common with his family . |
| 4 | Both were presumably tenants as Charles Ballinger still owned the mill up to the 1850s . |
| 5 | ( Even today , Australian aborigines who have lived for a generation in settlements have still to acquire the habit of taking regular meals . ) |
| 6 | Although Tiller still produced the Winter Gardens show every year , he delegated more and more of the work there to his assistant directors as he was so busy abroad . |
| 7 | The world trade in manufactured goods doubled between 1900 and 1913 , and Europe still produced the bulk of what was sold . |
| 8 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 9 | They refused still to attend the kirk and word had got around that they had been married by ‘ The Prophet ’ . |
| 10 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 11 | Many Dwarfs stumbled to the ground dead with Goblin arrows embedded in them , but more still made the gate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The procession was still circling the arena . |
| 14 | Even if the patient does not know the identity of the food — as in a single-blind test — the expectations of the experimenter can still influence the outcome . ) |
| 15 | Not only that he was fit enough to still influence the game dramatically . |
| 16 | Trim off icing around the base , but let it still cover the drum slightly . |
| 17 | A requirement of such a degree of knowledge might still cover the situation where a broker executes deals on behalf of an insider , as long as he knows of the nature of the deal or continues to execute orders despite strong suspicions . |
| 18 | Should he divorce , he can still attain the throne . |
| 19 | But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court . |
| 20 | Still got the money ! |
| 21 | Yeah I still got the blame for it |
| 22 | Yeah I still got the steak . |
| 23 | You still got the impression of a grown-up playing with schoolboys . |
| 24 | Well , when Paddy Pottleton snuffed it , I still got the rag , entirely for your articles . |
| 25 | I breathed through my mouth , but I still got the feeling of it . |
| 26 | And after all that , Mr Watoo still got the job . |
| 27 | All he cared about was booze , but he still got the job done before he got soaked . |
| 28 | Mm , so er still got the fire on Zoe ? |
| 29 | You still got the dog Fred have you ? |
| 30 | She s still got the fag and matches in her hands , so I take them away from her . |