Example sentences of "still [vb past] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still seemed in charge there . ’ |
| 2 | The ground still shook in time with the footsteps of the great beast . |
| 3 | And then we she got married we still kept in touch with one another and I got married and we did n't live far from one another . |
| 4 | But North still went in fear of ingratitude . |
| 5 | He fell back down on his knees and prayed , then , to his Jesus god , and she watched him , beating his forehead on the ground , where the marks of Sycorax 's rites still lay in charcoal tracks . |
| 6 | They passed the fountain , which still lay in darkness , having beaten Stephen and the team of electricians he had had working until minutes before the guests ' arrival — the one and only thing that was not finished . |
| 7 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 8 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |
| 9 | The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill . |
| 10 | Mrs Cullam still sat in front of the television , the baby asleep now in her lap , the dog lying across her slippered feet . |