Example sentences of "still [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wollo Muslims , who were being persecuted by the Shoan army , had attacked Dessie and , though defeated , were still raiding at large . |
| 2 | At the time , the year of expiry would hardly have seemed significant , but when it arrived , Champagne was still recovering from four years of German occupation . |
| 3 | ‘ Abd al-Karim was still recovering from serious gunshot wounds sustained during the Iraqi occupation . |
| 4 | The level of the early 1950s was abnormal in the sense that major trading nations were still recovering from internal war devastation . |
| 5 | NEARLY 200 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday in a series of bomb explosions in Bombay , the Indian commercial capital still recovering from brutal Hindu-Muslim violence . |
| 6 | NEARLY 200 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday in a series of bomb explosions in Bombay , the Indian commercial capital still recovering from brutal Hindu-Muslim violence . |
| 7 | Sally uses mixed media and is still experimenting with other materials . |
| 8 | In 1915 he was still experimenting with different styles . |
| 9 | Barker 's poetry , however , is largely of a different order : rebellious , mad , hortatory , and still singing after all these years . |
| 10 | He stepped forward and advanced slowly up the ramp , still singing in that voice which shook the rafters . |
| 11 | He would seem to have touched a power chord — what was predicted as a two-week movie is still drawing in American crowds for , reportedly , fourth visits . |
| 12 | In the following months he defeated Lord Franks in the election of a Chancellor for Oxford University : he was still in office in 1983 , and still using in public ceremonies the Latin pronunciation he had learned at Eton in the last Edwardian days . |
| 13 | Chipie and Chevignon pursued a similar course , and are still sticking with those weary old Fifties graphics and Top Gun sartorial sycophancy . |
| 14 | " I 'm going to my father 's , " she said again , slowly , still puzzling over that message from her buried self , that sang in her fingertips and up her arm . |
| 15 | She was still puzzling over this problem when she reached the General Post Office . |
| 16 | so I 'm still struggling with four children and no car |
| 17 | Though the country is still struggling with major economic constraints there is some evidence of improved efficiency in health care delivery since its establishment in 1986 . |
| 18 | Mike Nichols and Lawrence Turman , who were still struggling after six months to find their leading man , took in the show one night . |
| 19 | Her heart was still thumping after that disturbing scene with Julius , her skin was hot and clammy , and her eyes overbright . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure he would be proud of you , ’ Merrill said slowly , still marvelling at this new-found empathy . |
| 21 | Margins and jobs are still shrinking in many industries and corporate debt has doubled in the last five years . |
| 22 | But , in fact , we do not have far to look to discover some characteristics of the mensural system still occurring in later French music , in works by Du Mont , Charpentier , Lalande , Couperin and later composers . |
| 23 | We were still climbing at full power and a touch of nose up trim enabled me to increase the rate of climb . |
| 24 | The employers were about to remove theirs by what its American champions were to call ‘ scientific management ’ , but in our period they were still groping for this solution . |
| 25 | Two days later , the body was still appearing on different beats . |
| 26 | The United States was still pressing for close cooperation , while the West German Chancellor , Konrad Adenauer , had on several occasions already suggested some kind of Franco-German cooperation . |
| 27 | Instead of the single , level playing-field for financial services that the Community talks of , the field will indeed be single but still sloping from one end to the other . |
| 28 | She followed him numbly , still praying for that elusive miracle as they went into the staff rest-room and collected two cups of coffee and then out again , back down the corridor to the consultant 's room — his room . |
| 29 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 30 | Look at all these blasphemous bastards that are still walking around this orchard . ’ |