Example sentences of "[conj] still [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another inch , another foot , another yard — on they crawled through the wet , cold mud across a terrain that still belonged to no man . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I leaned panting against a lamppost , while Doris tenderly removed the segments of toffee orange and chocolate cake that still clung to my suit . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | She gave him a little push and , in a daze , he followed Dorothy and one or two of the others up the stairs to the room that had been and still seemed to be Bunty 's . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Three months after buying and taking delivery of a car , the purchaser discovered that it had not belonged to the seller and still belonged to its original owner . |
| 8 | Two bays in Sutton depôt were screened off and such office work as still had to be done locally was done there . |