Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was still [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I pulled my head up , feeling confused but amazed that I was still alive because when I saw the lorry coming towards me I honestly thought I had had it . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose that I was still naive and intoxicated by the candyfloss world that racing can seem to be . ’ |
| 3 | I put in an appearance at Ingard House to show that I was still busy about the audit , and had a word with Henniker . |
| 4 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 5 | I suddenly started thinking that he knew , he knew all along that Elsie was n't dead at all , that she was still alive . |
| 6 | So many times she had helped at the scene of an accident and felt the same need to be with people afterwards , just to be sure , as he said , that she was still alive . |
| 7 | A FORGED letter supposedly from a dead bank clerk was written by the man who murdered both her and her father in order to convince relatives that she was still alive , a court heard yesterday . |
| 8 | She could relax with them and pretend for a while that she was still one of them . |
| 9 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 10 | Rosa thought of the Madonna , and thanked her , thanked her with a welling passion of gratitude such as even she had never felt towards her before that Tommaso had not taken advantage of her total willingness and that she was still intact — no one would be able to say anything against her.They could examine her if they wanted , those witches could paddle inside her to make sure . |
| 11 | From the noise she made , it was clear that she was still angry but Constance was n't frightened . |
| 12 | She laughed with him , amazed that she was still able to function normally while her insides were doing the Twist ! |
| 13 | Was it possible that this percipient Norseman had recognised that she was still unviolated ? |
| 14 | He had already consumed more than one bottle of wine on his own , Alyssia managing to sip so slowly through her one glass that she was still stone-cold sober , and fully aware that at this rate her lift home would be out of the question and that she would more likely have to get a taxi . |
| 15 | Doctors said yesterday his condition had improved significantly , but that it was still serious . |
| 16 | In an interview with La Repubblica on 24 January Luigi Zanda , Chairman of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova , confirmed that it was still feasible to complete the operations in the Lagoon by the year 2000 provided there were no interruptions in the flow of funds or technical hitches . |
| 17 | Once he was in power , this alternative view would argue , his policies were more consistent with a belief that it was still feasible to salvage some kind of organic link between France and Algeria than with a belief in the inevitability of complete rupture . |
| 18 | When the officer pointed out that it was still warm , the man said : ‘ That 's where the cat sits . ’ |
| 19 | Celsus reports that his father managed to persuade the consular consilium that it was still due . |
| 20 | I thought that it was still possible for there to be a political link between the United Kingdom and India . |
| 21 | His assurances that it was still possible to declare war and survive were appreciated most of all by the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ — the Pentagon , the RAND Corporation ( for which Kahn 's research was done ) and the thriving weapons industry , Deterrence always had and will have one decisive advantage over Disarmament as a policy : it makes some people a fortune . |
| 22 | Through all the vicissitudes of history , the crown came to embody Hungarian nationality and the Kingship remained elective , so that it was still possible for Hungarians in 1860 to deny Francis Joseph sovereignty because he had not been crowned with the crown of St Stephen . |
| 23 | The industry commissioner , Martin Bangemann , told reporters yesterday that it was still unclear what line Mr Clinton would take on Airbus , which was the subject of an EC-US subsidy reduction deal last year after a long-running dispute . |
| 24 | And as it could n't be seen from the cockpit there had been nothing to remind her that it was still open . |
| 25 | In later years , however , the company denied that it was still responsible for pollution and certainly lead emissions were considerably reduced when mining went underground . |
| 26 | It seems that whatever Saxon settlement there had been was so devastated during the Norman advance of 1070 that it was still uninhabited at the time of the survey in 1086 . |
| 27 | OPZZ said on Jan. 21 that it was still prepared to strike , demanding talks on economic and social policy . |
| 28 | Troops advanced from the garrison towns of Malakal and Juba , while the government said that it was still prepared to participate in any future peace talks with the rebels which Nigeria might succeed in mediating [ for October 1991 postponement of talks see p. 38519 ] . |
| 29 | Yet it represented a great advance on Populorum Progressio ( 1967 ) , which showed that he was still listening and learning . |
| 30 | It is virtually certain that he was kadi of Bursa in 802/1400 , for there exist three documents of Bayezid I 's dated in that year which bear the signature of Molla Fenari as kadi of Bursa ; and that he was still kadi at least well into 804 is indicated by yet another document cited by Husameddin , the of the Inebeg b . |