Example sentences of "[adv] still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | • An increased pumping of the heart ensures that the exercising muscles receive all the extra blood and yet enough still goes to the brain and other vital organs . |
| 2 | In the circumstances , hotel use was clearly a good second best , as it meant that the staterooms could be used for functions and so still seen by the public . |
| 3 | Much still remains for the LEA to do . |
| 4 | Much still remains of the earlier medieval university and downstairs you can wander through a maze of beautiful simple passages and rooms with quadripartite vaulting . |
| 5 | Much still rested on the provisions of local Acts for improvement schemes . |
| 6 | Sit yourself down , or better still go into the sitting-room . |
| 7 | Rickie , apparently still vibrating to the music , sprang up from the stateroom couch . |
| 8 | However , in the interests of Western European stability and its own financial position , the British government is perhaps still putting off the final offer — either British withdrawal or some form of power-sharing with catholic nationalists — in the hope of loyalists coming round to what is seen as a more reasonable position . |
| 9 | It felt the cold from outside still clinging to the canvas that the man wore . |
| 10 | Meanwhile still waiting in the wings are the Cameron 's management buy-out team and Sunderland brewers Vaux . |
| 11 | Venus is much smaller , but nevertheless still has about the same mass as the Earth . |
| 12 | ( A more restrained Bristol is concentrating on lutes — presumably still recovering from the bagpipes . ) |
| 13 | Toni Halliday , the group 's charismatic vocalist , absent today , is probably still recovering from the nightmare that was her first band , State Of Play . |
| 14 | She 's probably still living in the same house , still teaching , still struggling with the Marmite and the Spinoza . |
| 15 | In the mid-1980s the Daily Telegraph probably still spoke for the great bulk of Middle England , when , after Britain had yet again resisted international calls to reduce pollution , it announced : |
| 16 | Diaries , calendars , ASCII code tables and the rest can , and do , have their uses but analysis of the amount they really get used shows that they probably still belong on the desk rather than in the computer . |
| 17 | That plant is probably still sitting by the desks of a number of influential food writers offering a constant reminder that oranges make an excellent ingredient in all kinds of cooking . |
| 18 | It 's only right that Toad Of Toad Hall , together with the rest of his entourage from Wind In The Willows , should be reincarnated by the Thames in Oxfordshire : that 's where they were born , and that 's where they probably still live in the hearts and minds of all who grew up with them . |
| 19 | His presence is also still felt in the phrase ‘ Lazy Lawrence 's Load ’ , which is how a farmer would describe a worker who struggled under a too-heavy load of fruit . |
| 20 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
| 21 | Any unmixed foil unsold by the buyers clearly still belonged to the Dutch sellers by virtue of the first part of clause 13 . |
| 22 | Ironically , at the time both were leading such hectic lives that even though they were both still living at the family home in Melbourne they had almost no time to spend together . |
| 23 | They were both still laughing at the memory when the off sales bell rang . |
| 24 | Consumerist initiatives often still lurk in the shadows . |
| 25 | But Venice is a seaport still , and above all these lesser vessels there still tread through the lagoon , as they always have , big ships out of the oceans . |
| 26 | … there still survived of the Lord 's family the grandsons of Jude , who was said to be His brother , humanly speaking . |
| 27 | And there still waiting on the twenty fourth May , I said well I have n't got it yet , he said no it 's taking two weeks or so . |
| 28 | He met Georges Bettembourg there in 1979 , they became friends and Sustad was invited to go to Shivling in 1981 with Bettembourg and a strong team that included Doug Scott who was to become a great friend and partner , and Don Whillans , who , despite being in his 50s , by then still contributed to the expedition . |
| 29 | Over half the British population was then still living in the countryside , and among the older generation even more — fully twice the proportion today . |
| 30 | Ian always wanted to work in industry , and in April 1986 , he moved to the Legal Department of British Coal [ then still known as the National Coal Board ] , specialising first in property work in the Gateshead office , and the following year joining a team of commercial solicitors based in Doncaster . |