Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coroner laughed and was still bellowing with mirth as Athelstan urged his horse forward out into the street . |
| 2 | I was still weeping with fright when Uncle Bill put me to bed . |
| 3 | Dinah was still weeping in bewilderment . |
| 4 | Healers who use their hands rather than pills and potions are still treated with scepticism . |
| 5 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 6 | If preference was still given to diplomacy , force ( alone or in co-operation with Britain ) was not ruled out — especially in defence of oil supplies to Europe against any threat , Arab or Soviet . |
| 7 | In spite of his bitter criticism of his father , he still asked for help from him . |
| 8 | Jonathan Carroll 's After Silence ( Macdonald , £14.99 ) comes complete with a curious endorsement from Stephen King : ‘ I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporated scenes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature , ’ writes the doyen of domestic horror , prompting the thought that it all depends what you mean by literature . |
| 9 | Although still biased in favour of him we do to some extent begin to change our opinion and perhaps look further behind his lies and inconsistencies . |
| 10 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 11 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 12 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 13 | The vine is unimportant , but how and why its cultivation still persists in Champagne must be fascinating to anyone who has ever been intrigued by the curiously eclectic attitude to rules and regulations often displayed by the French . |
| 14 | Rising behind one of them was a third hill , even higher , and with its top still hidden in fog . |
| 15 | That accident victim , trucker Harry Martinson , is still recovering at home in Hatfield Road , Ipswich , following the accident in April . |
| 16 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |
| 17 | Neil , 23 , of Wythenshawe in Manchester , is still recovering from shock , but Sue was determined they would have a Christmas to remember . |
| 18 | Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets . |
| 19 | Notable omissions were Abdul Qadir ( still recovering from injury ) and Shoaib Mohammad . |
| 20 | But the European champions will again be without their injured captain Ruud Gullit , their third AC Milan player , who is still recovering from knee surgery , and the PSV midfielder Gerald Vanenburg , who has damaged knee ligaments . |
| 21 | SEVEN Newcastle United fans were still recovering in hospital last night after a double fatal accident on the A66 trans-Pennine road . |
| 22 | A 12-YEAR-OLD boy , who survived in a fume-filled car in which his mother and eight-year-old sister died , was still recovering in hospital yesterday . |
| 23 | We 're still limited by sexism , but at the same time we 're bombarded with images telling us that we have to achieve a lot . |
| 24 | During his short tenure of the foreign office in 1807 – 09 George Canning had published official correspondence relating to foreign affairs on a markedly larger scale than any of his predecessors , though what appeared in print was still limited in scope and carefully edited . |
| 25 | Do you still stay in touch with the other district nurses ? |
| 26 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 27 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 28 | Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses . |
| 29 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 30 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |