Example sentences of "[am/are] still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we 're gon na so we came out of Paul 's place , behind Belmont Parade , up past the ponds there and that 's and I 'm knackered , I 'm going up river , had no you start at the bottom of Belmont Parade , up those ponds up to the traffic lights where you change buses , that 's all up hill and it 's slow , and you 've just started and you 're not warm and it 's like running out of here , running up that hill there , now you could run up that hill if you got , if you had sort of round a couple of times round nice , no one so more ready to go , you 'd run up there , you come out of here , run down here , not warm , feel you get , well I come out of there and , and you get , you go up past that set of traffic lights , you go up and you 're still struggling past The Bull , that 's still up hill , you get to the , just round that bend and it starts dropping down , and it 's a gradual drop down , below the roundabout and the next roundabout 's pretty level there , not too bad a roundabout , right the way across to Scades Hill , went down Scades Hill , right the way down to Alton , bottom of Alton high street , came out by the toilets at White Hart to High Street , up to house . |
| 2 | Some tourist attractions say they 're still drawing in the crowds , although the immediate future is far from rosey . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Gas Board officials say they 're still baffled about the cause of a mains explosion on the A four one eight Thame to Oxford road yesterday . |
| 5 | We 're still faced with the mortgage and school fees . |
| 6 | But you 're still looking at the bar spaces a hundred and fifty pounds , and seat spaces two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 7 | Detectives in Cheltenham , who 're still looking for the milkman 's attackers , say they understand his decision . |
| 8 | Detectives in Cheltenham , who 're still looking for the milkman 's attackers , say they understand his decision . |
| 9 | They 're still looking for the murder weapon , believed to be a tyre lever . |
| 10 | ‘ They 're still living in the Stone Age . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But they 're still mystified by the motive for such a terrible attack on a frail old woman … |
| 13 | When you 've done it you 're still left with the same vacuum inside you waiting to be filled . |
| 14 | But even if I did , we 're still left with the same question : What are we going to do about it ? |
| 15 | We 're still suffering from the liberties he took . |
| 16 | So , if you 're still lying in the tub , staring at that cracked sink , why not think about transforming your smallest room ? |
| 17 | By making you pay more on your VAT , so we can knock the Poll Tax bills down , you 're still paying for the damn stuff , ah , ha |
| 18 | I think er they 're still talking at the moment . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Now he plans to use the profits to help his family who 're still trapped by the fighting . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's a fair assumption , although we 're still waiting for the full results from the post-mortem . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're still applying for the wrong jobs , ’ she said , with more than a hint of exasperation . |
| 23 | Dad 's shirts wo n't be dry in time , they 're still dripping into the bath . ’ |
| 24 | ( 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 … ) . |
| 25 | I am still searching for the answer to that one . |
| 26 | It had a profound influence on me — I am still working on the stuff she did to me . ’ |
| 27 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 28 | Tell the President that you have not forgotten about Wang Xizhe and other Pro-Democracy Movement activists who are still jail for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression . |
| 29 | Any bankruptcy proceedings commenced before 29 December 1986 are still governed by the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as amended and the Bankruptcy Rules 1952 as amended . |
| 30 | Although many prerogative powers have been displaced by statute , many matters at the heart of government are still determined under the authority of the prerogative . |