Example sentences of "still [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's changed over the years , but it 's still for what I 'd like to think of as the intelligent , discerning young music fan . ’ |
| 2 | The chances of survival of a wind-blown pollen grain are very much smaller still for their requirements are even more precise and restricted . |
| 3 | He fondled her between her long legs for a long time , and she remained still for him . |
| 4 | And as for Mortimer , they shall pay dearer still for him . |
| 5 | she might be holding still for me to hear : |
| 6 | OUT FOR a while now , but still worth your attention due to the diversity of ace music on this sampler . |
| 7 | He could sense , even in the darkness , the enormous wonder of her eyes , fixed unwaveringly upon his face though they saw him only as a bulk solid and still between her and the sky . |
| 8 | He froze , his hands up as though the jacket were still between his fingers . |
| 9 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |
| 10 | He , like the birds , was bubbling with the spring of the morning , but to Marian with a sense of secrecy still about her , his voice sounded strangely , dangerously , loud . |
| 11 | Possibly , we may know more still about her : that she has always voted Labour , believes in capital punishment , and thinks multinational firms are manipulating the world ; likes reading romances , does the pools regularly , and watches Coronation Street every week … . |
| 12 | The room was unnaturally still about her , but the stillness might shatter at any second . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course I 'll have dinner with you , ’ she told Travis , while rebellion was still about her . |
| 14 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 15 | Her left arm propped her , and she was sitting sideways , after the way of a child : one ring of the broken handcuff was still about her slim leg . |
| 16 | Like most people who have had a supremely happy relationship , I felt an aura of love still about me , and Leslie 's courage put upon me an obligation to be brave . |
| 17 | The Government are still after their pound of flesh . |
| 18 | She had forgotten about them , but they were still after her . |
| 19 | They are still considering their response to the writs . |
| 20 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 21 | She had hold still of her wicker basket . |
| 22 | His back was still towards her . |
| 23 | Replace the sleeve stitches from the garter bar , with the wrong side still towards you . |
| 24 | 12.30pm : Pound still below its ERM floor . |
| 25 | The pavement was still below my feet , which were moving more or less as they were supposed to . |
| 26 | It was from these that the ‘ grammatical rules of school textbooks ’ were derived , at least until the work of descriptive linguistics in this century , and perhaps still despite it in some cases . |
| 27 | He was still in love with his cousin and still against her relationship with Jeff . |
| 28 | She tried to raise her head , wanting to see in his eyes what she was feeling in his embrace , but Guy cupped her cheek , holding her still against his chest . |
| 29 | It 's up here and I 'll sell two twenty new bidder two twenty now two twenty then it 's half way down on the left at two twenty and I 'll sell at two two forty two sixty still against you two sixty , it 's down there and I 'll sell at two hundred and sixty pounds . |
| 30 | It 's down there at two forty at two fifty still against you at two fifty , any more ? |