Example sentences of "[num] were still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when Lloyd came out did the runs begin to flow , but when the final twenty overs began another 154 were still needed . |
| 2 | With three overs left 35 were still needed ; Walsh was duly hammered for 16 , all but one to Lamb , but the penultimate over from Patterson yielded only six . |
| 3 | All three were still dressed in what they had been wearing in the camp : corduroy trousers , khaki shirts and pullovers and big nailed boots . |
| 4 | None knew the whereabouts of the nine orangs , but three were still put in jail for refusing to give information . |
| 5 | Then wickets tumbled , and sixteen were still needed to avert the follow-on when the eighth went down ; but Old with a bruised wrist , and Snow saw them to safety and the innings made 332 . |
| 6 | The revolt was squashed , but Tambov peasants in 1922 were still compelled to pay a levy on the acorns they picked to eat as a substitute for bread . |
| 7 | A retrial was ordered in 31 cases , while 13 were still sought by the police . |
| 8 | Philip the Fair 's interventions in the 1290s were still guided and determined by the appeals of the allegedly wronged and disaffected vassals of the magnates , the greatest of whom was the king-duke of Aquitaine . |
| 9 | Seventeen ( 19% ) had no soiling , eight were still constipated with <3 bowel movements per week , and 11 were receiving treatment ( laxatives , stimulants , suppositories or occasional enemas ) to prevent constipation . |
| 10 | The innings lost momentum when Willey and Larkins were run out in quick succession , and as the final over began 15 were still needed . |
| 11 | Kallicharran , Lloyd ( with an injured hand ) , Murray and Marshall all went , and when the seventh wicket fell 28 were still needed . |
| 12 | Brearley did his best , but four were still needed off the last ball and he could manage only a single . |
| 13 | School atlases in the 1950s were still coloured half in red . |
| 14 | Seven were still detained yesterday after the drama at the new council-run Waveney Valley pool in Bungay , Suffolk . |
| 15 | In the Northamptonshire village of Cogenhoe half the villagers recorded in 1618 were not there ten years later , and in the Suffolk parish of Horringer only two of the sixty-three family names recorded between 1600 and 1624 were still found in the parish register between 1700 and 1724 . |