Example sentences of "still [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time I was worn out , still reacting no doubt from living for years on end in fear and dread . |
| 2 | Books Etc was , he said , ‘ perturbed by the fact that we are still seeing a galaxy of British paperbacks at the airside of Heathrow terminals presented with a flourish as ‘ unavailable elsewhere in the UK ’ ’ . |
| 3 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 4 | Looking at the bass , it seems as if people are still slapping a bit on the price for the name . |
| 5 | After his arrest , the vermilion red Metro car belonging to 51-year-old Michael Sams was used for the demonstration , which proved that the bin would fit into the back of the vehicle , still allowing the tail-gate to be shut . |
| 6 | As previously explained , this will put the throttle servo into a preset position while still allowing the pitch to be controlled by the throttle stick . |
| 7 | He can begin to analyse the distinctive features of communicative interactions while still using the language of the mentalist . |
| 8 | Only in Iceland are the local Icelandic cattle still maintaining a stronghold of about 33,000 milking cows out of a total of 70,000 cattle in the country as a whole . |
| 9 | As we saw modern Marxists have reworked their theory to account for these changes while still maintaining the centrality of Marx 's original insights . |
| 10 | Here there is a calm sense of wonder and satisfaction coming down gently from the previous energetic emotion with the sigh of , ‘ Ah ’ , but still maintaining the feeling of happiness and ‘ brightness ’ with words such as ‘ white ’ and ‘ flame ’ with references to nature and ‘ bird-song ’ . |
| 11 | The landowner has the advantage of receiving a cash sum while still enjoying the possession of his land , but generally he does not have the security of knowing that the transaction will proceed . |
| 12 | At present there is only one small private mine still producing a coal of acceptable specification and as their coal preparation facilities are not very sophisticated , the coal supplied is almost ‘ run of mine ’ with a high percentage of fine coal . ’ |
| 13 | Finally , there was the Ottoman Empire itself , still in 1880 formally suzerain also over Bosnia and Herzegovina , and still administering the Sanjak of Novi Bazar ( between Montenegro and Serbia ) although Austro-Hungarian troops occupied it . |
| 14 | Jonna was still courting a girl from the neighbouring farm over the moor top at Skiplam . |
| 15 | I was still fumbling the key in the driver 's door as the two Pakistanis — one of them Pointy-Beard but the other a new one on me — piled out of the Capri towards me . |
| 16 | However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts . |
| 17 | Zizzo plays the Concerto well enough , capturing the atmosphere of Broadway effectively , while still relating the work to its classical roots ( natural son of Rachmaninov in places ) , and the orchestra , clearly happier in this idiom than int he Overture , provides fine support . |
| 18 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 19 | Ten new vats had been installed since Christmas , there was a new dryer , the warehouse had been extended — and all this had been achieved despite the fact that twenty of the feeble " yellows " were still dying every month from malaria ! |
| 20 | He sat on a small stone bench opposite the priest 's house , half dozing , still relishing the memory of his meeting with de Craon . |
| 21 | I push myself up , still keeping the knife near her throat . |
| 22 | She has to decide , as she goes , how and when to weave in new strands and drop old ones , still keeping the continuity of design . |
| 23 | John Buckingham on Foinavon , well behind this chaos , was still keeping an eye on Josh Gifford on Honey End , though he was aware that his mount would be likely to prove more one-paced than the favourite . |
| 24 | Still keeping an eye on the two men , he glanced down at the girl . |
| 25 | After more than a year of " the war to end wars " Wilson was still pressing the need for the accumulation of a strike fund of such a size that when the war was over , the union " would be able to put up such a fight that their opponents would never be able to withstand " . |
| 26 | Therefore , either the acoustic-phonetic component must reduce the phoneme graph depth further while still guaranteeing the inclusion of the target phoneme in all successive vertical slots in the graph — but it would be optimistic to suggest that this will be possible in the foreseeable future — or else , lexical and post-lexical processing must be enriched to constrain further the alternative number of derived word strings . |
| 27 | Therefore the letter is either a fake , or the diver the writer saw was a Russian still inspecting the ship for other British frogmen . |
| 28 | An ordinary sailor had won this bounty , yet when the expedition returned Columbus claimed it for himself ( the dove still elbowing the raven from history ) . |
| 29 | Quickly , she added , ‘ I mean , if you 're still wanting a place in the country , it would be far too small for us both during the week . ’ |
| 30 | Here the new road over to Glen Garry , continuing the A.87 classification , turns to the right , the signpost still urging a visit to Fort William . |