Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of his bitter criticism of his father , he still asked for help from him . |
| 2 | Erm still got for Sanyos . |
| 3 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 4 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 5 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 6 | Profits still tumbled from £68m to £33m but that includes £8m of redundancy costs . |
| 7 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 8 | He kept the windows open because the car still smelled of Arabella 's perfume . |
| 9 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 10 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 11 | Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses . |
| 12 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 13 | Places had not changed much and the family still lived at Temple Stephen in Derbyshire . |
| 14 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 15 | Nothing like this had ever happened while Cedric still lived with Dorothy ! |
| 16 | her first film at the age of fourteen , when she still lived in Swindon . |
| 17 | Yet in 1950 four fifths of Turkey 's 20 million people still lived in villages , and practiced agriculture in family enterprises . |
| 18 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 20 | Just possibly , Justine still lived in Geneva ; but in Chapuis she was now one with Shelley 's dead , marching underground … |
| 21 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He still drew from life , of men and women filing towards the mine shaft through the snow and of miners holding lamps , bent double under loaded sacks . |
| 24 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 25 | Half a mile away smoke still rose from Dangerfield 's machine , where he had crash-landed on fire after stopping a burst of tracer in the wing . |
| 26 | ‘ It would give you and Miss Liza ’ — as she still referred to Celia 's mother — ‘ a bit of a break . ’ |
| 27 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 28 | He still seemed in charge there . ’ |
| 29 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 30 | Ellen was amused by my naïvety , claiming that if she dug deep enough she would probably discover that I still believed in Santa Claus . |