Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm still got for Sanyos . |
| 2 | He kept the windows open because the car still smelled of Arabella 's perfume . |
| 3 | Places had not changed much and the family still lived at Temple Stephen in Derbyshire . |
| 4 | Nothing like this had ever happened while Cedric still lived with Dorothy ! |
| 5 | her first film at the age of fourteen , when she still lived in Swindon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Just possibly , Justine still lived in Geneva ; but in Chapuis she was now one with Shelley 's dead , marching underground … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It would give you and Miss Liza ’ — as she still referred to Celia 's mother — ‘ a bit of a break . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ellen was amused by my naïvety , claiming that if she dug deep enough she would probably discover that I still believed in Santa Claus . |
| 12 | That she still believed in Allah and prayed regularly at the nearby mosque . |
| 13 | Meistersinger , then , still came before Tristan , but such distinctions were fast losing their significance . |
| 14 | The production of textiles was still going up ; in 1913 two-thirds of the whole world 's imports of cotton goods still came from Great Britain . |
| 15 | Whereas summer still lingered in Florence , winter had already taken hold in Cramer . |
| 16 | Even after the murder of Thomas Becket in his own cathedral on 29 December 1170 , there were churches in Aquitaine which still turned to Henry for help and protection . |
| 17 | She still dated by Lothar 's reign-years : it was not clear in whose kingdom Uzès might end up . ) |
| 18 | The House of Lords held that the contract between Lindsay and Blenkarn was void and that therefore the goods still belonged to Lindsay . |
| 19 | The court held that the car still belonged to Bennett . |
| 20 | It was held that the candelabra still belonged to Mr. Reid and no title passed to the art dealer because the transaction was concluded before sunrise . |
| 21 | I said , " Yes-sir ? " as if I still worked for Hatch & Hodges . |
| 22 | And some Allied occupation rights still survived in Berlin in 1989 . |
| 23 | Like most migrants , she still thought of Scotland as home and Britain as the homeland , although she knew she would never see her native country again . |
| 24 | Yet despite this being his long-term plan , he still thought of England as ‘ home ’ , of Alice and the Pritchetts as his ‘ family ’ , of Aubrey as his best friend . |
| 25 | Miss Ruth or Miss Joan , as she still thought of Mrs Lovell and Mrs Young , could probably do with a hand . |
| 26 | Gertie still looked after Victoria , using the time that her charge spent in the schoolroom to attend to her clothes — washing , brushing and replacing buttons . |
| 27 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 28 | Embassies still went from Moscow to the states of Europe at irregular and often long intervals and stayed only briefly . |
| 29 | A pang of regret lanced through her as she recognised how little she still knew of Suzie 's innermost feelings . |
| 30 | She still stared at Alice , as if unable to believe what she saw . |