Example sentences of "still [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 2 | still got to be there for it . |
| 3 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 4 | But , she said I 'm pleased with him so far , but we still got to be careful that 's why she made him have this collar . |
| 5 | There are things certain things I 'm committed to and to have time off means I still got to be able to do those things . |
| 6 | But the white paper , published in July after five months of lobbying , still amounted to the most radical shake-up of the legal profession this century . |
| 7 | Although the widespread disruption of the earlier 1949 crisis was avoided , the load which had to be shed in the severe winter of 1951 ( 2109MW ) was in absolute terms the highest ever , and still amounted to 17 per cent of the load on the system . |
| 8 | The economies , however , still amounted to only £56 millions … |
| 9 | Even if they followed an older , slightly more direct road , it still amounted to a total of about thirty-three miles . |
| 10 | Forcing the subject to use an acoustic strategy , by making the task one in which he had to indicate whether the terminal phoneme of one letter 's name was the same as that of another ( e.g. B and G have the same terminal sound , B and M do not ) , still led to a RVF advantage . |
| 11 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 12 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 13 | How the leaves which still clung to the branches of the pear tree were silvered on their undersides . |
| 14 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 15 | To Zborowski 's annoyance , Modigliani still clung to his old habits in the cafés , making dozens of sketches and giving most of his work away or bartering it to buy drinks . |
| 16 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 17 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 18 | Her fingers still clung to the spokes , keeping one wheel out of action . |
| 19 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |
| 20 | Hayward and Day were obviously actresses who still clung to a perception of Hollywood stardom that no longer existed . |
| 21 | Cut off from God 's communion and divine love , the rebels still clung to their leader Lucifer , their fallen star , who still glowed with forgotten glory and the heat of defeated bitterness . |
| 22 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 23 | Ellen still clung to my arm . |
| 24 | They still clung to many of their old pagan beliefs and practices . |
| 25 | But many more thoughtful pacifists still clung to the hope that the appeasement of Germany 's Versailles grievances would serve to moderate , or even undermine , the Nazi regime . |
| 26 | Duroc 's team had got the power on , and he had sent exterminator packs into the streets to begin the task of clearing out the vermin that still clung to the ruins . |
| 27 | Unknown to the Orcs , the crown was working its power upon Azhag , for it was an ancient and evil device that once belonged to the Liche Lord Nagash himself , and his power and his spirit still clung to it . |
| 28 | In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight . |
| 29 | ‘ She still clung to me , but the social worker was thrilled about it , she said it meant she 'd bonded well . |
| 30 | Some memory of magic still clung to it , and with my art there was enough ; he drank , looked into my eyes , and could never again think of any other woman . |