Example sentences of "[pron] still [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I still kept my nose among the blooms . |
2 | Then I could walk home in daylight , but at bedtime I still searched my room for the murderer , who wore a black leather built-up surgical boot that swung and lurched down thick-pile carpets towards his victims . |
3 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
4 | ‘ I still regard my win in last year 's Derby on Dr Devious as the greatest , thrill of my racing career , ’ he told me . |
5 | Problem was I was playing a British Military Police Chief , and I still had my uniform on when I turned up at this place . |
6 | He says : ‘ I still see my role as one of privilege . |
7 | Although I still held my card of the Transport and General Workers . |
8 | Eusebio played that night , and again when United beat Benfica at Wembley two years later to lift the European Cup and enshrine a friendship between the two clubs which still leaves its mark in Lisbon . |
9 | Nevertheless , it 's the deathless ‘ Tears Of A Clown ’ and ‘ The Tracks Of My Tears ’ which still define his place in the popular memory : odd that such a joyful singer should be best remembered for two helplessly sad little songs . |
10 | He had a degree of concern for the vanquished Germans , and respect for them as individuals , which taught me another valuable lesson , and which still makes his name in Wilhelmshaven one which is honoured rather than reviled . |
11 | Carolyn , who still had her job at the ‘ Craft Basket ’ , stayed at home . |
12 | Are you still developing your presence in Japan ? |
13 | Can you still get your divorce on such puny , immediately regretted unfaithfulness ? |
14 | ‘ I see you still have your penchant for gaseous drinks , ’ I remark . |
15 | The question this time , however , is would you still put your money on her ? |
16 | " You still put your money on the evenings , though . " |
17 | ‘ Even now you still believe your body to be so irresistible that I must be hungering for it ? ’ |
18 | While crossing the Old Bridge , she suddenly wondered if she still had her money in her breast purse . |
19 | She still had her glass in hand , and sipped then passed it over . |
20 | When midday arrived and she still had her job at Vasey 's , Leith began to have doubts that Naylor Massingham intended to dismiss her . |
21 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
22 | so we did n't open yours , and when you left , I thought oh no , they 're gon na think we 're really rude , because we still got their bottle of wine , and we did n't drink it . |
23 | Unbeaten Cremonese are just two games from the final , but Smith said : ‘ We still have our pride at stake . |
24 | They still retain their stronghold in southwest Scotland and northern England today . |
25 | And even when the ark was abandoned , it still left its mark on the science . |
26 | It no longer needed the wealthy connoisseur for his erudition , it had acquired the relevant expertise into its own hands , but it still needed his recognition to be acceptable to society . |
27 | He still wore his expression of vacuous merriment , which must have been habitual rather than assumed in my honour . |
28 | He still wore his hair in a pony-tail , complete with ribbon , and wore an ankh on a chain around his neck , but beneath the veneer of a harmless flower-child gone to seed he was as acquisitive as a bower-bird . |
29 | A dark look crossed his features as she told him she did n't want to see him , but he still kept his temper on a tight rein . |
30 | Jackson smiled ; he still had his back to the room . |