Example sentences of "[noun prp] be still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford are still searching for the winning touch … goal man Chris Pike was out of luck on saturday … out of sorts too he went off still feeling the affects of flu … |
| 2 | After 30 years of research , Clarins is still fascinated by the beauty secrets of plants . |
| 3 | Wright is still suffering with the groin injury that ruled him out of England 's World Cup qualifier 12 days ago , while Adams also missed the Chelsea defeat after falling down some stairs on a night out last week , and needing 29 stitches in a cut forehead . |
| 4 | The levy in mass against the Gauls is still mentioned in the charter granted to the " colonia Genetiva Julia " in Spain in 44 B.C. , when it was presumably a simple piece of antiquarianism , if it did not allude to Caesar 's recent wars . |
| 5 | By 1850 , Abel was still assisting at the college , whereas Mansfield was preparing his naphtha fractions elsewhere and was eagerly looking for socially useful outlets for his products . |
| 6 | When we arrived home Frankie was still sitting by the fire with a coat round his shoulders and Mrs Taylor was there in Mum 's starched white apron ready to serve . |
| 7 | Potrovsky stamped on the brake pedal violently and the Mercedes was still slewing across the icy road when the missile struck it broadside . |
| 8 | It is easy to forget , for instance , that the Bank of England is still nursing along the remains of that 1970s darling , Slater-Walker . |
| 9 | She hoped that Maggie was still looking after the jeweller whose name Sarah had a struggle to remember . |
| 10 | This should not surprise us , if we remember that , even after another millennium of evolution Zeus was still credited with the ability to transform himself into an infinite number of forms : a bull , a swan , thunder and lightning , and a shower of gold . |
| 11 | In other words , Athens was still holding to the idea of a central Greek , religiously based land empire . |
| 12 | In many autonomous republics Russia was still perceived as the nucleus of empire . |
| 13 | This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 14 | Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night . |
| 15 | In the canter of the camp Senator Nathaniel Sherman was still seated at the table on his own , savouring his third post-prandial cognac . |
| 16 | The Blackpool Brook is still channelled beneath the cottages , now passing unhindered through a tunnel . |
| 17 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 18 | And we know , of course , that the Atlantic is still tearing along the dotted line down its centre , albeit very slowly in human terms . |
| 19 | Every now and then he stopped to peer out through a slit in the tent wall arid check that Jacques Devraux was still seated with the American hunting party at the table in the canter of the clearing . |
| 20 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 21 | Bruce was still lost in the red mists of temper seven minutes later when Simpson , City 's impressive recruit from Swindon , released White with a splendid pass — and Bruce tracked him almost to the deadball line before scything him down . |
| 22 | The moon has set ( the warriors with Dulé are still gliding towards the Rebecca ; the sloop is growing broader , taller , blacker as they approach her ) , but the stars are burning in the dark blue distance , one of them sparkling emerald and ruby and sapphire as if shaking drops of water from itself after a bathe in the liquid of the sky . |
| 23 | MUD being transported away by lorries as part of a dredging scheme on the River Lagan is still spilling into the streets of the Lower Ormeau , the local residents ' group has claimed . |
| 24 | Sixty per cent of electricity in Lithuania is generated by two RBMK-1500 reactors ; 40 per cent in the Ukraine is produced by nuclear power stations ; and 50 per cent in Kiev is still supplied by the part of Chernobyl that remains in operation . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 26 | Furthermore , as Hong Kong is still affiliated to the Rugby Union , Dudley Wood , the RU secretary , acknowledges that ‘ we will have to look into the matter ’ . |
| 27 | It seemed Blunset was still wandering through the corridors and Endill looked forward to their next meeting . |
| 28 | Ralph was still waiting in the doorway . |
| 29 | A papyrus of the Middle Kingdom , Papyrus Prisse , recounts " The Instruction for Kagemni " , teachings of wisdom supposedly written for his benefit by his father and which demonstrate that Kagemni was still remembered in the Twelfth Dynasty . |
| 30 | Ms Nadia Comaneci was still performing on the long bar for Romania , but her gymnastic trainers had already defected to the US . |