Example sentences of "still [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 3 | The last thing I want after the programme is to be still caught up in the atmosphere of the studio . |
| 4 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 5 | The wheel he had mounted on a bit of rod from Stewart 's smithy still turned freely in the burn at the side of the kail-yard . |
| 6 | The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other . |
| 7 | Although all staff will have been through a thorough central basic training course ( see Chapter 6 ) much additional training and supervision is still needed back in the bureau . |
| 8 | Little knots of people still talked earnestly in the street outside the church for a long time afterwards . |
| 9 | Opening this month 's Guitarist , any pleasure I was enjoying to find that my name still ranked highly in the opinion of guitar players and music dealers was destroyed totally by the allegation that — to quote from Tony Iommi 's feature — ‘ unfortunately John ended up in jail and that was the end of that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Shhh ! ’ she hissed , hands still stretched upwards in the dark . |
| 11 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 12 | But as far as the security services are concerned , the Kremlin is still plotting to undermine world capitalism and J. Edgar Hoover is still holed up in the FBI powder room . |
| 13 | Visegrad 's streets were deserted yesterday as Serb irregulars exchanged sporadic fire with the handful of Muslim gunmen still holed up in the town . |
| 14 | Only the drafting of the manifesto still remained precariously in the hands of the leader and the NEC . |
| 15 | In the 1970s , most Keynesians , monetarists and marxists still believed firmly in the validity of their diagnoses and the efficacy of their remedies . |
| 16 | These organised dog fights are still practised surreptitiously in the United States , but are now mercifully illegal throughout the Western World . |
| 17 | Four minutes later Hedman 's powerful shot was parried by Wood , but still ended up in the net . |
| 18 | She had spent many years of her adult life in Page Street and most of her old friends still lived there in the row of terraced houses . |