Example sentences of "he still " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fink 'e still misses those 'orses . ’ |
| 2 | Left him still playing at midnight and collapsed into bed . |
| 3 | She went to find her husband , and discovered him still laughing and ducking the tomato barrage , naked from the waist up but liberally coated with a kind of raw ketchup . |
| 4 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 5 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 6 | There follows a winter of adolescent wretchedness and , as Part III of the fiction begins , the narrator describes its surviving effect on him still , almost twenty years later in 1914 : |
| 7 | She turned and saw him still sitting at the table . |
| 8 | My deep love for him still remains . |
| 9 | ‘ And I remember him very well , I remember him still . |
| 10 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 11 | Two of you lads , hold him still . |
| 12 | Being denied the use of his own chapel ( the former warrant against him still being in force ) , he preached at another chapel nearby . |
| 13 | The stranger half-turned , but a warning pain in his ribs held him still . |
| 14 | An industrious intercourse with other enterprising nurserymen in this town and in the country round made him still more proficient . |
| 15 | Calm and svelte , stealthy as a cat in his movements , he seemed to approach sex as a form of research , favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them , and would wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body , fingering it like a box of index cards . |
| 16 | On a Russian tour when he had a lot of causes for dissatisfaction , snapshots show him still lively : pretending to drop a kopek into the hat Marcia Haydée holds out to him ; embracing a Russian colleague , Yuri Grigorovich of the Bolshoi ; thoughtfully watching a Russian ballet class . |
| 17 | Part of her trusted him still , but the voice of reason whispered that he could not be the frank and open person he appeared . |
| 18 | Ho stiffened beside him and Jack grabbed his arm to keep him still . |
| 19 | He heard Hugo 's voice , saying lines of poetry to him that remained with him still : he came to a decision , and wrote to him . |
| 20 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 21 | I admired him for his decision then , I admired him for not thinking being world champion was worth the risk , and I admire him still for maintaining a moral stance . |
| 22 | Figures bothered him , and the fact that he had always found them easy bothered him still more . |
| 23 | An astonished officer found him still clinging grimly to the controls as he trundled along at a snail 's pace . |
| 24 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 25 | He had barely slept after the meeting with the Consul from the Embassy and the escort of men in the khaki uniforms of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti had taken him still drowsy from the back seat to the train at a far platform . |
| 26 | ‘ I think I love him still , I think I 'll love him all my life . |
| 27 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 28 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 29 | Hating him still , I burn with utter delight . |
| 30 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |