Example sentences of "still [verb] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The application may be submitted at any time ( as long as the candidate is still registered with the Institute ) and the examination is normally arranged within a few weeks .
2 At 10:30 am , first thing in the Fleet Street morning , his desk at the Daily Post was still stacked with the detritus of the night before .
3 Political observers felt , however , that difficulties could still arise with the USA , because of his publicly expressed view that Japan 's trade surplus was a " fundamentally insoluble problem " caused by unstoppable world demand for superior Japanese products , and would remain impervious to import tariffs or even major currency shifts .
4 Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship .
5 ‘ Sometimes , ’ answered Zach , still struggling with the cords .
6 She 's probably still living in the same house , still teaching , still struggling with the Marmite and the Spinoza .
7 He came into pentathlon through swimming , his strongest event — and is still struggling with the fencing .
8 ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’
9 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 .
10 France and Italy have also had to cope with falling output , and Germany , still struggling with the costs of reunification , has now suffered three successive quarters of declining GDP .
11 Hitch was still struggling with the Beretta .
12 Even so , there are no neat correspondences : the Standard [ ] still sits with the non-standard [ ] ( whether [ ] is Creole or London ) .
13 Still fumbling with the clasp of her bag , she gasped , ‘ No , Marcus .
14 One breathes silky refinement ; the other still rings with the clank of rusty chain-mail .
15 ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’
16 In the third century B.C. they were still cooperating with the Greeks in Egypt , but they were becoming unpopular with the natives .
17 The laboratories are still grappling with the problem of large , flat screen TV .
18 Other towns in Oxfordshire are still grappling with the problem .
19 Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery .
20 Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner .
21 Michael and the thin man , still walking with the highway 's distance between them , first drew level and then went ahead .
22 With these riches of computer power at their fingertips , it still rankles with the quantum fraternity that the molecules which they can accurately subject to quantum description remain at only 2–20 electron systems .
23 ‘ I like to think my experience is a vital factor in midfield because obviously the side is still developing with the introduction of new players .
24 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 .
25 She turned her face into the pillow , still trembling with the force of the passion he 'd unleashed , then left unquenched .
26 Even Tyrrell , with Scheckter and Depailler , was still hunting with the leaders .
27 Still armed with the cane he would sweep into the classroom and say ‘ Hands show ’ .
28 she was saying now is he still going with the girl that he was , that he 's going wi he was going with and I says he 's still .
29 They halted the car on the edge of the battered and rutted grass which was still sprinkled with the ash and trodden cinders of last night 's activities .
30 While real political power still resides with the militia leaders back in Lebanon , it is perhaps misleading to regard the parliamentary meeting here in conventional terms .
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