Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
5 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
6 | THE Chernobyl disaster was seven years ago this week ( 26 April 1986 ) is still treated as a growing menace in the Ukraine and Belarus . |
7 | It does n't seem fair that women put in just as much effort , dedication and time as men , and are still treated in a second-class fashion . |
8 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Fairham was still gazing at the door . |
14 | He shook his head , still gazing at the patterns of sunshine on the grass outside the hut . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | While I was still gazing into the water basin , the doctor then covered me with blankets , enclosing me in total darkness . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Perhaps the dominant account still belongs to the Whig interpretation of history . |
24 | The museum is housed in the Old Court House , which still belongs to the Bloxham Feoffees , trustees of the ancient Bloxham charities . |
25 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | I think it still belongs to the Duke of Devonshire because he was interviewed at the end was n't he ? |
29 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
30 | 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 . |