Example sentences of "still [v-ing] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still struggling with the short introduction when her husband entered , bearing a breakfast tray . |
| 2 | This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 3 | Only a few months after vesting day , they were still wrestling with the enormous problems of reorganisation and the standardisation of the many different electricity tariffs they had inherited : this additional burden seemed to them too much . |
| 4 | I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend . |
| 5 | Rachel Sims ( Mrs Miller ) is still serving with the Metropolitan Police Force , and for the last few years had been at the rank of inspector , until recently holding the post of Staff Officer to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in charge of the North West London . |
| 6 | He was in for a big surprise if he thought he was still dealing with the impressionable , easygoing young girl he had married ! |
| 7 | Although Strathclyde 's operational costs were met , the region is still negotiating with the Scottish Office and Orkney Council over the subsequent legal and administrative costs of the inquiry , estimated at about £450,000 . |
| 8 | Ministers are still discussing with the Royal Household the style of the repair work . |
| 9 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |