Example sentences of "[be] still [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited .
2 Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door .
3 While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come .
4 However , printed opaques are still walking out of the shops this Christmas . ’
5 Stalls are still set out in the open air and the market place is hemmed in by shops , banks and public houses whose frontages still respect the ancient property boundaries .
6 And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen .
7 For long periods in the past , however , towns and cities did not exist , and yet many , if not most , of the functions which major urban centres fulfil today were still carried out in the landscape .
8 From all directions people were still pouring out of the maze of the Old City and heading towards one of the three gates of the Jama Masjid — three seething crocodiles of humanity heading towards the same walled courtyard .
9 His own companions were still coming out of the entrance burrow one by one and there was a good deal of scrabbling and shuffling .
10 Peter Yeo was still looking out of the window , and Claudia glanced at his familiar back , too short and too broad despite the most expensive tailoring , with real anxiety , ‘ You do n't honestly think that , do you , Peter ?
11 And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest .
12 Maisie was still looking out of the window .
13 The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine .
14 Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference .
15 Miss Kenton was still standing out in the hall where I had first spotted her .
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