Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs , Julie looked across and saw Stark hit the floor , her attention diverted only momentarily from the blows still raining against the door . |
| 2 | The dummy was still propped over the desk , the shower curtain drawn . |
| 3 | The ex-soldier had n't moved , his big hands resting on his knees , his feet still propped on the canvas bag . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 5 | Arab regimes , particularly Jordan , welcomed Israel 's reappointment of the old élite to provide municipal services , for it created the impression that the occupation was not permanent and that Jordanian authority was still recognized through the employment of its municipal and civil servants . |
| 6 | Although the seventeenth century saw the beginning of the end of magic in western society , some credence was still given to the supposed therapeutic properties of certain precious substances . |
| 7 | Miss Honey was still gazing at the child in absolute wonderment , as though she were The Creation , The Beginning Of The World , The First Morning . |
| 8 | Fairham was still gazing at the door . |
| 9 | He shook his head , still gazing at the patterns of sunshine on the grass outside the hut . |
| 10 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 11 | While I was still gazing into the water basin , the doctor then covered me with blankets , enclosing me in total darkness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nursing homes are still registered by the health authorities , so their ability to meet , and setting of standards that they 're required to meet , are still set by the health authority , registered by the health authority , and monitored by the health authority . |
| 14 | Church Farm has been tenanted ever since , and from Clives , through marriages to the Earls of Powis , it came and still belongs to the Earls of Plymouth . |
| 15 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 16 | Much of the village housing , including the farms , still belongs to the Legard family , although The Elms , a large 19th century house formerly occupied by the bailiff of the St Quintin estate , is now the offices of a turkey farm . |
| 17 | Perhaps the dominant account still belongs to the Whig interpretation of history . |
| 18 | The museum is housed in the Old Court House , which still belongs to the Bloxham Feoffees , trustees of the ancient Bloxham charities . |
| 19 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
| 20 | But do remember that the house still belongs to the parents and even if you do love black walls painted with silver moons and stars , bright red carpet and eerie holograms , but remember they have to live there after you are long gone . |
| 21 | Even so there is still some dragging of feet which makes things like the implementation of standards which could be used across , not only C&P , but ICI as a whole , something that still belongs to the future . |
| 22 | I think it still belongs to the Duke of Devonshire because he was interviewed at the end was n't he ? |
| 23 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 24 | Pow , in spite of taking a knock on the knee , will be at stand-off for today 's home encounter against Watsonians , who are on eight points but still embroiled in the relegation issue . |
| 25 | WADDINGTON GALLERIES David Inshaw , the Staffordshire artist , still turns to the landscape as his main source of inspiration . |
| 26 | English Shakespeare Company , Darlington Civic Theatre A RATHER timid audience still shaken from the English Shakespeare Company 's new version of Macbeth ventured along to the opening night of the old romantic favourite Twelfth Night , apprehensive at what was in store this time around . |
| 27 | Then , with as much dignity as he could find , which lay more in his spirit than anything else for he was still shaken by the buffeting the female had given him , he turned west and left them . |
| 28 | Sir Henry was still shaken by the terrible cry we had heard on the moor . |
| 29 | The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower . |
| 30 | The plaster casts demonstrate this with unpleasant clarity ; in many of them the hands are still pressed to the mouth , preserving the last hopeless efforts to breathe . |