Example sentences of "[conj] it still [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did it come down in remote forest land where it still lay , gradually decaying ? |
| 2 | But instead of looking at her , he was staring down at her hand where it still lay on his arm . |
| 3 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 4 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 5 | The 79-member Constituent Assembly , the majority of whose members were directly elected in December 1990 to draft a new constitution [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ] , voted by 54 votes to nine on June 8 to dissolve the existing Congress on July 2 , although it still had 2@1/2 years to run , and to hold fresh legislative elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 6 | Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel . |
| 7 | Where the two met , on tracks like ‘ Kennedy ’ and ‘ Brassneck ’ , it was bliss , but overall , it was a difficult record to feel comfortable with , although it still stood up to repeated plays . |
| 8 | Sir Maurice reportedly decided to reduce MI6 's role in Ireland , although it still conducted operations on the continent and against IRA gun runners in North America . |
| 9 | On 7 June 1786 the society noted that it still lacked information on which to base any specific resolution for the encouragement of scientific farriery and the matter was put aside . |
| 10 | For example , Riseholme , near Lincoln , did not finally disappear until the late sixteenth century-ecclesiastical records show that it still existed in the 1520s , but that by 1575 it had no facilities for burials . |
| 11 | The House of Lords held that it still belonged to the timber firm . |
| 12 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 13 | On Oct. 1 , the head of the sixth IAEA inspection team , David Kay , said in Bahrain that Iraq would have developed a nuclear weapon within 18 months had the Gulf war not intervened , and that it still possessed the technology to manufacture a nuclear weapon within five years . |
| 14 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 15 | I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database . |
| 16 | Mandarin , head down and drained of all energy , was all out , and it still seemed that his heroic effort might come to nothing , for the French horse Lumino was gaining with every stride and closing inexorably on the leader . |
| 17 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 18 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 19 | Well , Dell has apparently run a car over one of the new machines and it still worked afterwards ! |
| 20 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 21 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 22 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 23 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 24 | Perhaps she should buy a copy of Spare Rib , and see if it still carried adverts for consciousness-raising groups . |
| 25 | ‘ The club has horrendous debts , ’ said chief executive Freddie Fletcher , ‘ but it still prepared to spend in an effort to launch a genuine promotion push next season . ’ |
| 26 | Just think of the Titanic — everyone knew where she went down , but it still took years to find her . ’ |
| 27 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |
| 28 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 29 | A J-C-B digger was brought in , but it still took more than three hours to clear up the mess . |
| 30 | His eighth minute back-pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . |