Example sentences of "still [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinah was still weeping in bewilderment . |
| 2 | I 'm still eating in a guilty , uncomfortable way : huge amounts one day , then fasting or taking laxatives the next . |
| 3 | SEVEN Newcastle United fans were still recovering in hospital last night after a double fatal accident on the A66 trans-Pennine road . |
| 4 | Darlington man Keith Pringle was shot in the neck by a marksman and is still recovering in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 5 | A 12-YEAR-OLD boy , who survived in a fume-filled car in which his mother and eight-year-old sister died , was still recovering in hospital yesterday . |
| 6 | Irenaeus says that Mark wrote after the deaths of Peter and Paul , while Clement of Alexandria stated that the book was written while Peter was still preaching in Rome . |
| 7 | As he knew , the momentum was still building in his favour . |
| 8 | He stepped forward and advanced slowly up the ramp , still singing in that voice which shook the rafters . |
| 9 | He would seem to have touched a power chord — what was predicted as a two-week movie is still drawing in American crowds for , reportedly , fourth visits . |
| 10 | Some tourist attractions say they 're still drawing in the crowds , although the immediate future is far from rosey . |
| 11 | In the following months he defeated Lord Franks in the election of a Chancellor for Oxford University : he was still in office in 1983 , and still using in public ceremonies the Latin pronunciation he had learned at Eton in the last Edwardian days . |
| 12 | Does your kitchen look like an operating theatre , or are you still cooking in a replica Sienese farmhouse ? |
| 13 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 14 | Children as young as 18 months start with pre school gymnastics activity and at the other end of the scale adults of 60 plus are still competing in veterans competitions . |
| 15 | After their special meeting , the ANC then released a statement saying the tour was still hanging in the balance ad pointed the blame squarely at Louis Luyt . |
| 16 | Come dawn , the chick has checked out , but Spunk is still hanging in there — bad diet , presumably There followed a brilliant scene , as Spunk staggered out to confront the girl 's flatmates . |
| 17 | For I was still struggling in the web you had woven , like a helpless insect wanting to escape , yet hypnotized into acquiescence and adoration by the spider 's malefic eyes and enveloping threads , wound slowly one by one round my resistless mind : |
| 18 | Margins and jobs are still shrinking in many industries and corporate debt has doubled in the last five years . |
| 19 | But , in fact , we do not have far to look to discover some characteristics of the mensural system still occurring in later French music , in works by Du Mont , Charpentier , Lalande , Couperin and later composers . |
| 20 | Look at the stuff he 's holding on to : he is n't selling any of his great Minimal works , his Carl Andres or Donald Judds , but those are works that are still climbing in value . ’ |
| 21 | Whilst still climbing in cloud the aircraft hit high ground , near the top of Clough Head at 2,200 feet ams ! |
| 22 | Speaking for Jordan , Abu Jaber emphasized " our traditional Jordanian moderation " and warned against the " extremists and the rejectionists who speak in absolute terms and are still lurking in the wings " . |
| 23 | People are still dying in every gutter . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Not that way , ’ said Philip , still keeping in the trees . |
| 25 | He 's a man with no taste , still revelling in Jacques Brel , coming on like a shopgirl 's Scott Walker with geek dancing like the adored boy next door . |
| 26 | Some of the popular writings it seems had a huge circulation : Samuel Solomon 's Guide to Health , or Advice to Both Sexes ran to 66 editions between 1782 and 1817 , and editions were still appearing in the later nineteenth century . |
| 27 | I caught the leave ship while he , poor man , was still snoring in a room above an estaminet near the station . |
| 28 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 29 | We are still walking in the road . |
| 30 | While it was still trading in the United Kingdom I.B.C. granted a debenture , dated 28 April 1989 , to the Swiss Bank Corporation ( ‘ the bank ’ ) . |