Example sentences of "[verb] he still " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 2 | Calm and svelte , stealthy as a cat in his movements , he seemed to approach sex as a form of research , favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them , and would wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body , fingering it like a box of index cards . |
| 3 | To find him still nailed up , mute sufferer |
| 4 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |
| 5 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 6 | An astonished officer found him still clinging grimly to the controls as he trundled along at a snail 's pace . |
| 7 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 8 | She dared to open her eyes again and found him still there , close to her . |
| 9 | McEllhoney found him still lying there more than two hours later . |
| 10 | I did n't even know he still had my address , it all happened years before , we barely even had an affair . |
| 11 | She was determined not to let him know he still had the power to make her feel anything at all . |
| 12 | I mean if he was hung , drawn and quartered he still could n't pay for it the suffering he 's gon na cause . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's have something to eat , William , then afterwards I 'll go and see Lewis , I expect he still lives down near the docks . ’ |
| 14 | Mm , mm I 'm sure , has he still got car in garage like ? |
| 15 | I has he still got it then or is it , i re oh receiver Steve that got it |
| 16 | Has he still got his long hair ? |
| 17 | So has he still not been down ? |
| 18 | So what about Russell today then David , has he still got a sore throat ? |
| 19 | Yet even when he was sequestered and suspended he still kept his privileges and immunities as an officer of Chancery . |
| 20 | We 're sure Alan Sugar will be pleased to know he still has one fan left , and we have to admit that he did play a great part in bringing PCs to the masses . |
| 21 | On a Russian tour when he had a lot of causes for dissatisfaction , snapshots show him still lively : pretending to drop a kopek into the hat Marcia Haydée holds out to him ; embracing a Russian colleague , Yuri Grigorovich of the Bolshoi ; thoughtfully watching a Russian ballet class . |
| 22 | Two of you lads , hold him still . |
| 23 | To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life . |
| 24 | At 27 , Garry says he still has plenty of ambition left to add to his 36 international caps . |
| 25 | Even after 30 years of marriage to Francine , Sacha says he still finds the heart-throb label difficult to live with . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister has postponed a Commons debate on the Maastricht treaty , but says he still plans to forge ahead with a bill to ratify it . |
| 27 | Sir Stanley Matthews , who was the first footballer to be knighted says he still does n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 28 | Even when he saw it being done he still would n't have known what was going on but unless you try it yourself , you do n't know what physical effect , or mental effect , it has on you and how speedy and intolerant it makes you of other people . |
| 29 | When the pips stop he still does n't say anything . |
| 30 | I hope he still does . |