Example sentences of "still [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office . |
| 2 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 3 | Durance was still looking at the painted woman stepping from the shadow . |
| 4 | Midwinter was still looking at the revolting hand . |
| 5 | At The Hague , still aiming at the illustrated magazine market , he concentrated on figures in action , and in the process would be distracted by other subjects : by shabby house fronts , factories , drying sheds , parks , churches , refuse dumps , freight yards . |
| 6 | ‘ He would n't speak to you , Gilbert , ’ continued Rohmer , still staring at the shattered window as if willing the lightning to return . |
| 7 | ‘ His eyes are a very nice color , ’ Isobel said , still staring at the sleeping baby . |
| 8 | Mr Ozberk is one of 18 Kurds still detained at the Haslar Centre for young offenders near Gosport , Hampshire , all of whom face deportation . |
| 9 | I still wonder at the curt response to my query . |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing I ever have nightmares about , ’ Andy says , his gaze still directed at the unseeable loch , his eyes still wide . |
| 11 | Secondly , as is well known , if average cost is still falling at the relevant output , marginal cost pricing leads to deficits . |
| 12 | Because the Australian aborigines still exist at the hunter-gatherer level of culture they have no need for a weaning trauma in early childhood as is found among all primitive agriculturalists , and consequently children , although experiencing a period of oral dependency as they do in the West , linger in that stage , do not have to give it up and , in a sense , remain unweaned until adulthood — or , certainly until initiation , which is essentially the same thing . |
| 13 | Births , marriages , deaths — ; all the routine stuff is still kept at the local Standesamt where it was first registered , and only there . |
| 14 | CITY financiers are still gasping at the Financial Times editorial column on Thursday which backed Labour . |
| 15 | Muslims may step up action on Rushdie Joanna Coles finds Islamic community still raging at The Satanic Verses . |
| 16 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |