Example sentences of "still [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do . |
| 4 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 5 | ( A more restrained Bristol is concentrating on lutes — presumably still recovering from the bagpipes . ) |
| 6 | Toni Halliday , the group 's charismatic vocalist , absent today , is probably still recovering from the nightmare that was her first band , State Of Play . |
| 7 | They all looked and saw that Mildred 's feet , still recovering from the invisibility potion , had not yet reappeared , even though she had changed back to her usual self . |
| 8 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 9 | In contrast to the boundless optimism of the 1960s the country was still recovering from the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate and undergo-ing a crisis of confidence in both political leaders and institutions . |
| 10 | In the case of the London Metal Exchange ( LME ) , still recovering from the collapse of the tin market in 1985 , this involved a major restructuring , including the introduction of new transparency and clearing systems . |
| 11 | She was still recovering from the shock of that earlier bout of jealousy . |
| 12 | He smiled , his eyes taking in her shiny hair , silky dress and everything else about her , and , while Leith was still recovering from the ‘ darling ’ , he placed a firm , possessive hand on her elbow and guided her into the room . |
| 13 | As hospital staff try to get rid of the last traces of CS gas from the department many are still recovering from the ordeal , which left them and a number of their patients suffering the effects of the gas . |
| 14 | He 's still recovering from the knee injury which put him in hospital last February . |
| 15 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 16 | Graf 's withdrawal would be a major blow to Wimbledon , with Monica Seles whom she deposed from the top of the world rankings in Paris still recovering from the knife attack in Hamburg on April 30 . |
| 17 | The first , St Joseph 's in Marton Road , had space for 200 children but objected since it is still recovering from the effects of housing another primary school following a major fire . |
| 18 | But the Dutchman is smart enough to know that even though the practice session at the stadium went well , his strike-force still suffer from the age-old Irish problem . |
| 19 | The clear spring near the present pier still gushes from the rock below the road and across Monkey Beach where the monkey boats landed for provisions and drinking water in days gone by . |
| 20 | Capella hangs low , pale , large , moist and trembling almost engulfed between two horn of the wood upon the headland , the frailest beacon of hope , still fluttering from the storm out of which the land is emerging . |
| 21 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
| 22 | I suppose is the only way if , if he started bleeding or if he felt loose , cos she said he 's still swollen from the operation |
| 23 | The area was deserted and still devastated from the wartime bombing and seemed an ideal starting point . |
| 24 | MELROSE president Jim Russell has claimed that the best is still to come from the Greenyards men . |
| 25 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 26 | They were still bruised from the Nehru — Jinnah encounter ! |
| 27 | Behind the scenes Pilger , still fuming from the Kennedy Hotel showdown , was working separately . |
| 28 | Morrissey 's songwriting still stemmed from the angle of poverty and this early repertoire would last for eighteen months of success . |
| 29 | Yet savers will still profit from the bull market as beneficiaries of the pension funds to which they sold their shares . |
| 30 | She wrenched her face away from his , her breathing fast and shallow as she stared up at him , her pupils still dilated from the passion he 'd stirred in her . |