Example sentences of "still [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 2 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 5 | Your doctor or midwife may also check your breasts and abdomen , though the womb is still hidden in the pelvis in the early weeks and may not be felt . |
| 6 | The continued argument about transport development shows how important a part it still plays in the economy of the US . |
| 7 | When the police found him later his head was almost severed from his neck , lolled through the fractured opening in a macabre way , the dead cigarette still tucked in the corner of the dead man 's mouth . |
| 8 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 9 | It was no good , she thought , for Signor Fixit to pretend that he still lived in the age of Just William . |
| 10 | I heard the news from a guy I knew who still lived in the village . |
| 11 | You 're always saying you wished you still lived in the country . |
| 12 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 13 | Since then she had married someone else and been widowed , but she still lived in the district with their daughter , Anna . |
| 14 | Very few Russian nobles moved west , but " in 1858 the majority of the nobles in the Russian Empire … still lived in the nine western gubernii [ provinces ] " . |
| 15 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 16 | Some tourist attractions say they 're still drawing in the crowds , although the immediate future is far from rosey . |
| 17 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
| 18 | SDP left-wingers were more neutralist and anti-American than their leaders , and anxious to see more radical domestic reforms but Brandt feared that greater radicalism would alienate the FDP , on whom the SDP still depended in the Bundestag . |
| 19 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 20 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 21 | After their special meeting , the ANC then released a statement saying the tour was still hanging in the balance ad pointed the blame squarely at Louis Luyt . |
| 22 | We therefore argued that given the radical nature of women acting as independent agents , action which still flies in the face of dominant ideologies and which challenges the nature of the family , it is astonishing how much progress women have made in this period . |
| 23 | For I was still struggling in the web you had woven , like a helpless insect wanting to escape , yet hypnotized into acquiescence and adoration by the spider 's malefic eyes and enveloping threads , wound slowly one by one round my resistless mind : |
| 24 | Oh , oh , well he 's still reversing , he 's waving his arm about for everyone to overtake him but , he still sits in the same position oh dear |
| 25 | Done it all and still sits in the chair . |
| 26 | Neutral currents with the appropriate properties could still exist in the theory of beta decay that Enrico fermi had proposed in 1933 , without the mediation of W or Z particles ( figure I ) . |
| 27 | To do this , accepting that many visitors from across the world will probably attend the next World Cup , tempted also by the extraordinarily favourable rates of exchange and despite the problems which may still exist in the country , SARFU has to ensure that the majority of South Africans will have a chance to attend the games if rugby is to lose its elitist ‘ white ’ connotations . |
| 28 | still trembles in the flinching air |
| 29 | If , on any of the pay days , your employee was not due any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
| 30 | If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |