Example sentences of "[be] still [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've sacrificed some of their originality for a more ‘ contemporary ’ sound , yet it 's encouraging that they show such willingness to innovate — even if it does sound as if they 're still stumbling through the undergrowth . |
| 2 | But you 're still looking at the bar spaces a hundred and fifty pounds , and seat spaces two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 3 | Detectives in Cheltenham , who 're still looking for the milkman 's attackers , say they understand his decision . |
| 4 | Detectives in Cheltenham , who 're still looking for the milkman 's attackers , say they understand his decision . |
| 5 | They 're still looking for the murder weapon , believed to be a tyre lever . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're still living in the Stone Age . ’ |
| 7 | You do n't realise because the note is a new currency item and you 're still living in the world of the old £5 and £10 notes . |
| 8 | So , if you 're still lying in the tub , staring at that cracked sink , why not think about transforming your smallest room ? |
| 9 | I think er they 're still talking at the moment . |
| 10 | Moving on to look at the fact I mean you had erm and it is n't the fact that you 're still working in the shop , you 're still helping the shop , you 've had forty years in which you actually lived here did n't you ? about forty years ? |
| 11 | Dad 's shirts wo n't be dry in time , they 're still dripping into the bath . ’ |
| 12 | ( I am still smarting at the MILLSTONE remark about poor little B , at which simply roared with laughter , told me to ignore it and that he , , was merely getting crabbit , old , critical and jealous … ) . |
| 13 | I am still searching for the answer to that one . |
| 14 | It had a profound influence on me — I am still working on the stuff she did to me . ’ |
| 15 | Many welfare lobbyists and pressure groups are still struggling with the legacy of the Thatcher years , especially the Fowler reviews and the 1986 Social Security Act changes . |
| 16 | Oxford are still struggling near the bottom of Division one . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a good figure but objectively you have to say the trend remains flat and that we are still bumping along the bottom , ’ said John Shepperd , economist with merchant bank SG Warburg . |
| 18 | As hospital staff try to get rid of the last traces of CS gas from the department many are still recovering from the ordeal , which left them and a number of their patients suffering the effects of the gas . |
| 19 | The politicians , it seems , are still haggling over the emblem on the cover . |
| 20 | If you are still living in the property on expiry of the Notice to Quit , he or she will need to obtain a Possession Order from your local county court . |
| 21 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 22 | ‘ We are still searching for the money , but most of it was blown away . |
| 23 | Detectives are still searching for the murder weapon , probably a wooden handled knife . |
| 24 | ( 1982 ) found that a quarter of normal 3-year-olds are still wetting in the day at least once a week but that this rapidly reduces to 8 per cent at 4 years and 2 per cent at 8 years . |
| 25 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 26 | ‘ And we are still looking for the child who should have been in the premises , but was n't . |
| 27 | A hundred years on and the scene at Balcombe is much the same ; trains faster and far more frequent are still thundering through the tunnel but without the cheering villagers to wave them on their way . |
| 28 | Let us talk about reductions in corporation tax , which are still feeding through the economy and will be worth £1 billion to industry in the next year . |
| 29 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |
| 30 | Thousands of works of art once held in Russian and German museums are still missing after the war , including the famed Amber Chamber from the Imperial Summer Palace at Tsarskoe Selo , dismantled by the Germans when they occupied the outskirts of Leningrad . |