Example sentences of "[pron] still [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her win at Brighton in a tough final has proved , even to those who still doubted after her Wimbledon win , that she is back ! |
| 2 | The network of health and social work support she had enjoyed fell away , but she led a full life and drove her own car , though she still lived with her parents . |
| 3 | She still slept at her flat , where Jack either spent the night , as under the previous arrangement , or arrived back very late ‘ not disturbing ’ Franca , who had until today ( also without comment ) continued to sleep in the upper bedroom . |
| 4 | Even so , there was a developing duality in her feelings towards Johnny , and though she still longed for his presence , she feared it , too . |
| 5 | He had died before they could marry , but she still dreamed of their long walks on the Moor and the kisses which they had exchanged when they had managed to escape from her chaperone . |
| 6 | This time , of course , she was not only armed with the foreknowledge of what would be said but she still had in her mind the conversation we had just had about making mistakes . |
| 7 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 8 | She was a large woman , flushed with the exertion of constantly having to answer the door , and she still showed in her black hair , grey eyes and lovely skin , traces of her Irish forebears . |
| 9 | She still huddled in her small silent way at the top of her cage , watching the trees and sky and never looking at the Zoo , the people , or the other eagles . |
| 10 | We still worked for our own papers but pooled our resources when it came to the human-interest pieces for the Sundays . |
| 11 | It had been a part of her intention in coming here to banish those shades : already it seemed they were darkening her mind as surely as they still lowered across her father 's . |
| 12 | But instead of looking at her , he was staring down at her hand where it still lay on his arm . |
| 13 | Shadows of it still remained at his trial , two years later ; although his lawyer had evidently advised him to tone down the certitude of righteousness , it would slip out . |
| 14 | John himself was in no hurry to get married , he still lived with his mother in a small working man 's house in Moss Side and enjoyed a good social life . |
| 15 | At the root of his lifestyle was pots of money , treated almost entirely as disposable income , given that he still lived with his parents . |
| 16 | Thinking of Lee made him remember Uncle Walter 's medals that he still had in his pocket . |
| 17 | Maybe he never was on the same intellectual plane as some of the others , but he still believed in their picture of the world . |
| 18 | He still encountered in his daily life a few who looked past the empty gaud that distracted lesser minds and longed for a revelation that would burn the tinsel away , an Apocalypse that would show the Fifth the glories it yearned for in its sleep . |
| 19 | He still smarted from his treatment at the military prison , but realised that he must try to control his violent nature if he was to amount to anything . |
| 20 | However , he still persisted in his arrogant objections , so I got rid of him . |
| 21 | Some passion he still held for his fiancée ? |
| 22 | Then he thrust his knife back into its sheath and spoke towards the gleaming skull he still held in his left hand . |
| 23 | She glanced at the screwdriver he still held in his hand . |