Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was against her knees ; the parcels lay about them still wrapped , being easier to pack . |
| 2 | The windows are now boarded up , but the rocks which came through them still litter the floor . |
| 3 | The dogmatic gap between them still looks unbridgeable : Right against Left , Christian against secular , ancient against modern . |
| 4 | In 1806 a handful of major companies — the Sun Fire Office ( 1710 ) , the Royal Exchange Assurance ( 1721 ) and the Phoenix Fire Office ( 1782 ) — between them still transacted 60 per cent of fire insurance . |
| 5 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 6 | But while it was being chopped down the Collector and his men had emptied their guns into the hacking sepoys , and the door had become tightly jammed with the dead , many of whom still had bayonets wedged in their lifeless hands . |
| 7 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 8 | On the other hand , when they got the chance , they drank more than was good for them , and they all smoked , either surreptitiously or openly , depending on where they were and the various fashions in tolerance among their parents , some of whom still smoked cannabis to the scorn of their offspring . |
| 9 | Applying environmental laws is up to Spain 's regional governments , most of whom still think of emission standards as how fast building permits are issued . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a part of me still wants to be back in Bosnia and if I get the chance I 'll be there like a shot . ’ |
| 11 | The other half of me still loved them . |
| 12 | Er not all of them still existed , erm and three of the ponds , eleven o of the eleven ponds erm referred to in the erm three of them were in gardens . . |
| 13 | Carrie thought of all the people she knew in the world , all of them still eating and breathing and walking about , and then of Mrs Gotobed , lying still . |
| 14 | Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page . |
| 15 | There has long been a tradition of separating these ‘ special ’ clinics from the rest of the hospital , and many of them still go under euphemistic titles such as ‘ Martha and Luke ’ clinic , James Pringle House , or ‘ Lydia ’ clinic . |
| 16 | The rest of them still to go . |
| 17 | All of them still possessed big overseas empires , in spite of the losses sustained by Spain and Portugal , and they were all heirs to traditions of worldwide enterprise . |
| 18 | The poems in the book are a mixture of classics from well-loved writers to lesser known poets — many of them still writing today |
| 19 | One of them still had two or three mouthfuls of wine in it . |
| 20 | The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding . |
| 21 | Customers are also scared off by prices , he added , because some of them still believe that fault-tolerance means simply installing two machines that cost twice as much . |
| 22 | Mr Leach , who had originally opposed Mr Taylor 's selection on procedural grounds , said : ‘ Some of them still treat me as an ally and I know what they are saying . |
| 23 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 24 | Even though some of the most dangerous and persistent toxins , including polychlorinated biphenyls , PCBs , are no longer manufactured , quantities of them still exist , and must be got rid of . |
| 25 | And a lot of them still have n't worked in large organizations |
| 26 | The nightmare vision is : down to three or four , with one of them still held by Sir Nicholas Fairbairn — try staffing the Scottish Office with that . |
| 27 | The aims which I put up there , I wo n't go through each one , I think are hopefully fairly self explanatory , the , some of those are going well and some of them still need a hard push , a hard push from us and a hard push from the clubs and the teaching establishments . |
| 28 | The belated heatwave has left many of them still itching — from insect bites . |
| 29 | All the boys in Take That are careful with money , three of them still live at home with mum — and their parents make cups of tea for the adoring fans who wait outside their homes . |
| 30 | The Greeks used to know this part of the world well , and a scattering of them still live in Romania , Bulgaria and as far east as Ukraine . |