Example sentences of "[noun] still upon " in BNC.

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1 But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ?
2 When Hugh 's men had lifted Aldhelm 's body on to the litter , and set off down the path with it towards the Foregate , Tutilo fell in behind the sorry little procession like a mourner , and went silently step for step with them , his eyes still upon the shrouded body .
3 If he had been there , he would have come out of it with his lustre still upon him , and his crest as high as ever .
4 It was just after he had come home in 1945 , with his raw imagination still straining to assimilate the only excitements of his life and the strange dust of Italy and Egypt still upon his boots .
5 She came through on weekends , the smirk of the city still upon her face , wearing opal rings always cool to the touch , and highly glossed lips of mauve .
6 He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes .
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