Example sentences of "still [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the world needs — and is increasingly getting — says Nathan Myhrvold , the company 's head of advanced technology , is ‘ innovation in the way that we distribute information ; we still communicate mainly by smearing ink across dead trees . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Still raining outside ? |
| 3 | Boldwood clearly wanted to talk , although it was still raining heavily . |
| 4 | It was still raining steadily when she 'd put him to bed , after a last half-hour of television and a couple of chapters of Stig of the Dump . |
| 5 | " Oh , it 's still raining much too hard for that , " said Cowslip , as though there could be no two ways about it . |
| 6 | I knew Leslie 's fastidiousness in sexual matters too well to take the poem literally , but only as he intended that I should : that though he had met many other girls on his leaves in Alexandria and Cairo , he still cared only for me . |
| 7 | Many problems still lay ahead . |
| 8 | What sceptics said would be the hardest part of the enterprise still lay ahead — persuading the Indian Government to back the scheme . |
| 9 | The lights had been rigged but not yet tested , and cabling still lay everywhere . |
| 10 | When he had gone , she still lay there , fighting the terrible loosening of her bowels , the need to vomit . |
| 11 | His arm still lay there , so gently that she could not find it a pressure . |
| 12 | It still lay there on the keys , the fingers extended to form the shape . |
| 13 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 14 | Haroun still lay there fighting for his life . |
| 15 | He had hoped to find him attempting to dress but he was still propped up under the shower , hands against the wall . |
| 16 | Offices are still heated only half the day . |
| 17 | Male homosexuality is increasingly regarded as a variation of sexual behaviour rather than a perversion , and although the homosexual male is still treated badly by the law , in comparison to the heterosexual , he no longer feels the urgent need for anonymity and secrecy . |
| 18 | It is to the area is still treated differently for insurance terms . |
| 19 | The pungent AOR rockisms of ‘ Alive And Kicking ’ , the clod-footed thump of ‘ Sanctify Yourself ’ and the messiness of ‘ All The Things She Said ’ , coupled with wilfully obtuse witterings by Jim Kerr , will still wind up anyone who marvelled at the loneliness at the centre of ‘ Someone , Somewhere In Summertime ’ or the wistful catchiness of ‘ Promised You A Miracle ’ , the Euro-disco made flesh on ‘ The American ’ or even the neon womb-glow of the recent ‘ See The Lights ’ . |
| 20 | It 's a weird feeling to have only a layer of ice between you and the sea ; weirder still to drive out across the Baltic in a Volkswagen . |
| 21 | Still given up ; no temptation at all . ’ |
| 22 | In Somerset , the old drove-ways still branch off the main routes into the moors , like spines on a stickleback . |
| 23 | And they still drag out those photographs I took of the splashes and use them to illustrate lectures on bloodstains . |
| 24 | He was still gazing straight at her , without smiling or speaking . |
| 25 | ‘ It was full of slops , ’ answered Nellie , still gazing out of the window . |
| 26 | ‘ But more honest , ’ she said , still gazing upwards . |
| 27 | She was still gazing upwards anxiously when Felipe reappeared , and this time he was climbing down . |
| 28 | A few distant correspondents , untouched by time , still asked confidently for a painting of a particular ship . |
| 29 | The third country in Panama still belongs all too obviously to the United States . |
| 30 | But the memory of being caught and injected never faded , and even a year later the cat would still rush upstairs and hide beneath the bed if ever a man visited the house . |