Example sentences of "still [vb past] [prep] [art] shock " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 2 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 3 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 4 | In her heart , Tallis had known that Scathach would not wait for her , but it still came as a shock to find that he had betrayed his word to her . |
| 5 | Despite becoming constant companions , she says his marriage proposal still came as a shock . |
| 6 | The children played a game , jumping into the deep green pools in the torrent from the big rocks under the star apple tree ; the cold of the water was so intense that Martha felt her body flush to its core with a spasm of heat ; even after she had scrambled out of the water her flesh still tingled from the shock . |