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Example sentences for "could still"

  • In the district of Boshof, we could still reckon on Veldtcornet Badenhorst,[43] and twenty-seven men.

  • All that was now left to him was a strip of country about twelve miles long; here he could still exist.

  • Now we were obliged to celebrate it by giving up the only two guns with which we could still shoot, and which we were now to see turned upon ourselves.

  • It seemed incredible, at such a moment, that he could still be hopeful.

  • He could still eat as much as two men, and drink more than one.

  • Thank God, he could still put 'em in for himself!

  • He could still drive up, perhaps, once a week, on the pretext of seeing his man of business.

  • Raising himself, Levin began considering how much had been cut and how much more could still be done that day.

  • He could still be in time for his race, but if he went to Bryansky's he could only just be in time, and he would arrive when the whole of the court would be in their places.

  • For to such men it seemed impossible that in face of the damage already done, of thirty houses in flames, of a mob which had broken all bounds, of a city disturbed to its entrails, he could still refuse to act.

  • I could make love then--I believe that I could still if it would amuse you.

  • Make it still harder if you can, I could still do it.

  • The faster he walked the firmer became his conviction that he could still see it through.

  • Then if we WERE all heroic, 'the Land' could still be saved?

  • However, I could still go on, and--I could still go back.

  • And I found I could still spare a few dates for the children.

  • Although on the verge of middle life we could still, in the days I have told of, gallop ten miles at a stretch and hold a rifle straight at the end of the race--we could endure thirst, hunger and fatigue without wilting.

  • Behind us could still be faintly traced the contour of the hilly country from which we had yesterday emerged.

  • He could still feel as strongly in body, soul or mind, but never did he have those flashing periods when all three are fused together in that one white passion of feeling which is the genius of youth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could call; could catch; could climb; could come; could command; could confide; could desire; could gain; could haue; could judge; could muster; could not bring myself; could not have said; could not help feeling; could not help saying; could not refrain from; could readily; could rely; could they; could understand; could venture; divine authority; little country; mein lieber; never seen; poor mother