Example sentences of "still [v-ing] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 2 | She was still struggling with the short introduction when her husband entered , bearing a breakfast tray . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ answered Zach , still struggling with the cords . |
| 4 | He came into pentathlon through swimming , his strongest event — and is still struggling with the fencing . |
| 5 | Many welfare lobbyists and pressure groups are still struggling with the legacy of the Thatcher years , especially the Fowler reviews and the 1986 Social Security Act changes . |
| 6 | Hitch was still struggling with the Beretta . |
| 7 | ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’ |
| 8 | She 's probably still living in the same house , still teaching , still struggling with the Marmite and the Spinoza . |
| 9 | France and Italy have also had to cope with falling output , and Germany , still struggling with the costs of reunification , has now suffered three successive quarters of declining GDP . |
| 10 | Still fumbling with the clasp of her bag , she gasped , ‘ No , Marcus . |
| 11 | In the third century B.C. they were still cooperating with the Greeks in Egypt , but they were becoming unpopular with the natives . |
| 12 | This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | The laboratories are still grappling with the problem of large , flat screen TV . |
| 14 | Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery . |
| 15 | Other towns in Oxfordshire are still grappling with the problem . |
| 16 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 17 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 18 | Michael and the thin man , still walking with the highway 's distance between them , first drew level and then went ahead . |
| 19 | ‘ I like to think my experience is a vital factor in midfield because obviously the side is still developing with the introduction of new players . |
| 20 | Only a few months after vesting day , they were still wrestling with the enormous problems of reorganisation and the standardisation of the many different electricity tariffs they had inherited : this additional burden seemed to them too much . |
| 21 | Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night . |
| 22 | I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend . |
| 23 | She turned her face into the pillow , still trembling with the force of the passion he 'd unleashed , then left unquenched . |
| 24 | Even Tyrrell , with Scheckter and Depailler , was still hunting with the leaders . |
| 25 | Rachel Sims ( Mrs Miller ) is still serving with the Metropolitan Police Force , and for the last few years had been at the rank of inspector , until recently holding the post of Staff Officer to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in charge of the North West London . |
| 26 | she was saying now is he still going with the girl that he was , that he 's going wi he was going with and I says he 's still . |
| 27 | Wright is still suffering with the groin injury that ruled him out of England 's World Cup qualifier 12 days ago , while Adams also missed the Chelsea defeat after falling down some stairs on a night out last week , and needing 29 stitches in a cut forehead . |
| 28 | He stood with his back to the fireplace , still glowing with the remains of last night 's fire . |
| 29 | In the Commons , the Prime Minister has said he is still consulting with the United States over the situation in Bosnia . |
| 30 | Whilst the planned regeneration of this part of the city , including the Meadowhall retail development , has brought hope of an economic recovery , the area is still coping with the effects of unemployment and reduced school budgets . |