Example sentences of "still [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're still applying for the wrong jobs , ’ she said , with more than a hint of exasperation . |
| 2 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 3 | Among those covered by the files were Josef Mengele , a former superintendent of the Auschwitz concentration camp who had lived in Buenos Aires from 1959 until his death in 1979 [ see p. 33759 ] ; Josef Schwammberger , extradited in 1990 [ see p. 37899 ] ; and , reportedly , a self-styled " Slovakian National Socialist " , Stefan Polakovic , who was still writing for an Argentinian publication in 1992 . |
| 4 | CHELSEA manager Ian Porterfield is still searching for a top class goalkeeper despite the heroics of stand-in Kevin Hitchcock . |
| 5 | While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump . |
| 6 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 7 | The Philippines government , still searching for the estimated £6.5bn that the Marcos family squirreled away , is unimpressed with this fairy tale . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | Two opportunist tries by Saint-Andre , his third in the current championship , and Sella , his first this year , sealed the fate of the hapless Irish still searching for an elusive win after 11 consecutive games . |
| 10 | But , when asked whether he was still looking for a new goalkeeper despite Hitchcock 's form , Porterfield said : ‘ We are always looking to improve our squad of players and we will keep searching . ’ |
| 11 | It 's been a weekend of turmoil for Oxford United , still looking for a new manager . |
| 12 | It 's been a weekend of turmoil for Oxford United , still looking for a new manager . |
| 13 | Implementation of that policy , in Indo-China however , would depend upon France ; and after two years of war and in spite of some growing and ineffable optimism , the French were still looking for a purposeful Vietnam policy and had revealed not so much procrastination and missed opportunities as a sort of political paralysis . |
| 14 | The liquidator , Chris Ashurst of Brighton-based Neville Russell , says that he is still looking for a missing £1m of stock and is keen to hear from anyone who bought OCT machines from anywhere other than the London direct-sales team , or the liquidators ' auction held in Bristol . |
| 15 | It is these needs rather than those of the plant which have left us still looking for the right materials . |
| 16 | I think that perhaps some people are still looking for the Great White Hope , as they did in the days of John L. Sullivan , the first black World Heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 17 | Police are still looking for the other man . |
| 18 | Still looking for an appropriate ( and I use the word advisedly ) full-time job , and currently doing some freelance — and virtually voluntary ! — work for a charity , The Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland . |
| 19 | ‘ Japanese players are still hunting for the ultimate barcode 18 months after the game first went on sale . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Further details will reach you just as soon as they reach us … we 're STILL waiting for a finished version of Hook , ‘ coz we refuse to write full reviews from pre-production , half-finished disks ! |
| 22 | We 're still waiting for a green form extension to grant t t to be granted |
| 23 | Bryan Gould is as good as gold and Gerald Kaufman is a happy-go-lucky bachelor who 's still waiting for the right girl to come along . |
| 24 | She says she 's still waiting for the right man . ’ |
| 25 | But , thank God , we now have the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , and the World Health Organisation , but alas , are still waiting for the developed countries to engage in this world-wide task . |
| 26 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a fair assumption , although we 're still waiting for the full results from the post-mortem . ’ |
| 28 | Still waiting for the ever-imminent T9000 Transputer , London-based Parsys Ltd has announced details of a new interim range of parallel supercomputers , the SN8000 series , based on the latest 30MHz T805 Transputer and , for the first time , the Intel Corp 80860 RISC ; the new vector-boosted machines follow the proposed architecture of the SN9000 , which in turn reflects the design of the GP MIMD Esprit consortium 's Concerto machine . |
| 29 | This is because we are still waiting for the connecting bus from Wolverhampton … ‘ ! |
| 30 | On arrival at Worcester , Massachusetts , for the match , the earth was still moving for the British side and they lost nine-and-a-half to two-and-a-half , with Boomer winning his foursomes in partnership with his friend Archie Compston , but losing his single . |