Example sentences of "[Wh pn] still [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking now at her plump , well-kept hands , two heavy diamond rings worn above her unexpectedly old-fashioned wedding band it was hard to believe that her mother was a work-bent Ukrainian peasant who still wore a black kerchief over her hair and spoke little English . |
| 2 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 3 | That left Smith free to deliver the coup de grace to Glyn Charles , the only other helmsman who still had a chance of beating him . |
| 4 | Anybody who still sports a Beatle cut must be a hippie at heart |
| 5 | It has evidently met with considerable enthusiasm , but there has been initial resistance from some staff and parents who still favour a more academic approach to teaching and learning . |
| 6 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 7 | It can be paid to individuals who live alone , but who still require a high level of personal care . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , those officials in the finance ministry and the Bank of Japan who still equate a strong yen with a strong economy may be in for quite a shock . |
| 9 | John G. is a shy , virginal youth who still shares a room with his widowed father . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if there is someone in his past who still has a place in his heart , you do need to know about it before you can deal with it . |
| 11 | We owe a lot to Tom who still has a fondness for his kites , although he is better known in the 1990s as the creator of the GeoSphere Project , a spectacular image of the Earth produced from over 2000 satellite images . |
| 12 | It would make an ideal present for a young person whose railway consciousness was just being awoken and , perhaps , light reading for the more railway aware person who still has a hankering to remain in touch with history . |
| 13 | And lackeys in the Press would be better off directing their fire at the Premier , who still has a job , than at the millions who do n't |
| 14 | The committee agreed to write to Mr Rifkind , environment minister David Trippier , Richmond MP William Hague and former Richmond MP Sir Leon Brittan , now a European Commissioner who still has a home in Wensleydale . |
| 15 | You 've got the original ones … who still have a caring for the school , but the newer teachers … they 've got no caring for it and there 's no consistency in the school . ’ |
| 16 | Is that not merely a last act of spite by a Government who still bear a grudge against London ? |
| 17 | Mengele 's family , who still run a machine factory in his home town of Gunzburg , kept in regular touch with him through letters . |
| 18 | While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny . |