Example sentences of "[noun] be still [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 2 | His eyes were still as still pools for a moment as he looked and then suddenly became like spikes . |
| 3 | When the weather has entered a relatively rain free period , but when cloud cover is moderately dense and uniform , but not too low — when the prevailing light is evenly spread over the landscape , with no parts over bright or too deep in shadow — when the wind is still or gently fitful , a magic prevails everywhere upon the Wolds , and it comes from within the chalk . |
| 4 | The mound of masonry was still and silent . |
| 5 | But if you have a reasonable cross section of the country and your result was still that Birmingham was looked down upon as a low status accent , then at least you can your results so . . |
| 6 | But , now and then , she wanted to be at his side when his mind was still and there was nothing there but the sweetness within the forbidding exterior ; and the love . |
| 7 | The wind was still as vicious but the thunder had passed them by and the voice of the seas changed , waves breaking over the catamaran with less force . |
| 8 | She had shrunk as we walked back to her house , her arm had grown heavier , and the air in her hall was still and old . |
| 9 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 10 | The fact that a greater variety of messages may be broadcast on a vastly greater scale does not alter the fact that the central messages are still and more powerfully those of the capitalist global system . |
| 11 | " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . " |
| 12 | Alyssia 's body was still and she was conscious of her breath coming and going quickly . |
| 13 | I ca n't believe it , you see I thought things were still as they were . |
| 14 | The river was n't visible , but there had been a lot of rain over that week and one corner of the field had flooded , leaving a shallow temporary loch reflecting the tarnished dark silver of the clouds ; its waters were still and flat . |
| 15 | We 'll go no more a-screwing So late into the night , Though the heart is still as loving And the moon is still as bright . |
| 16 | The night was still but a mist was descending slowly ; he stood looking towards platforms 2 and I when he suddenly heard footsteps on the ballast approaching him . |
| 17 | There was no wind and the smoke rose straight from the farm chimneys and the bare branches of the roadside trees were still as they stretched across the cold sky . |
| 18 | ‘ It does not mean that chartered accountancy is not attracting as many people as before — demand is still as high , but there just are n't the training places available . ’ |
| 19 | One young woman is still as attached to her parents now as she was when she was small . |
| 20 | Kate knew that the wound was still as raw and bleeding in her parents ' mind as her own . |
| 21 | In the first meeting with the Area Board chairmen in February 1952 , the new Conservative Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , stressed the need for economy as forcefully as Gaitskell , and capital allocations were still as carefully scrutinised . |
| 22 | This was a bitter disappointment to Oliver , but his new friends were still as kind to him as ever . |
| 23 | Strathspeld is everywhere white ; the sky is still and shining , hiding the sun in a dazzling , brilliant haze , its light somehow distanced by the intervening layer of high cloud overlooking a chill wilderness of snow . |
| 24 | Can I just ask you if your position on the Daily Mirror is still that you 're not at all interested in it , or is there a prospect that you may change your mind when you 've seen the figures from the Mirror ? |
| 25 | In the morning , his friendship with the Mason was still as strong and his hatred towards Gabriel just as hot — but he could not quite recollect the reason . |
| 26 | The air was still and the flies seemed to have gone . |
| 27 | In the pinewoods below the cliff the air was still and I remember being distinctly intimidated by the size of Raven Rock , where our first tick of the day was to be found . |
| 28 | The night air was still and mercifully cool , a gentle breeze blowing in from the coast below . |
| 29 | The air was still and it was pleasantly warm . |
| 30 | Most of the restoration has been on the exterior of the buildings ; most of the interiors are still as they were the day the Germans were defeated . |