Example sentences of "[be] still [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever it is says you 're still nosing about in business which does n't concern you . ’ |
| 2 | I think we 're still talking here about depression and how to go and |
| 3 | And if we , yeah , and if we , yeah we 'll still win we , well we 're still going down in history for winning three fo , , all three matches in a row . |
| 4 | For , ‘ Two decades after the Brown decision ’ he wrote in 1974 ‘ we are still struggling inconclusively with school desegregation ’ . |
| 5 | In the mid-1980s , drainage contractors in the Midlands are still moving in on river valleys , starting with the stream itself and then clearing every adjacent hedge and copse as part of the same contract . |
| 6 | But , just as many writers have taken Virginia Woolf as an mandate to waffle in subjective , near-incoherent mode about matters domestic without a sliver of her context , variety of perspective , real innovation and sheer writing genius , so many fey sprites are still dicking around with fairy stories , dry old myths and ( oh dear , oh dear ) the tale . |
| 7 | Huge fires are still raging out of control in California . |
| 8 | The truth is , she would say , I 'm still looking forward to life beginning . |
| 9 | Here we go , Leith thought , fully expecting to be still sitting there at midday . |
| 10 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 11 | John Smith is still moving crabwise towards modernity . |
| 12 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
| 13 | Although the great ice sheets which covered much of North America and northern Europe in the recent past had largely disappeared by 10000 a BP , the landsurface in these regions is still rising rapidly in response to the removal of this load . |
| 14 | While some of last year 's stockpile has vanished , a lot of oil is still sloshing around in storage . |
| 15 | But Japan is flat as a pancake and the European market is still sinking deeper into recession . |
| 16 | Everybody is still crying out for rain ; no one is ever satisfied . ’ |
| 17 | Though turnover leapt from £122.2 million to £239.1 million , the UK market is still responding slowly to recovery , its profits almost halving to £4.1 million . |
| 18 | The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 19 | Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot . |