Example sentences of "[verb] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 2 | The track continues , re-entering dense mixed woodland , climbing still . |
| 3 | Here in Langdale an ewe stood weakly , blood still damp on its haunches as its offspring staggered in the shock of birth , cord still trailing in the grass . |
| 4 | P&O CRUISES still have a number of opportunities for concessionary cruises abroad Canberra and Sea Princess this year . |
| 5 | ‘ This part of the country ’ , wrote Eliza , ‘ resembles for miles a succession of parks thickly dotted with tall slender trees of the Eucalypti kind and the ground covered with luxuriant verdure where during the past season not a blade of grass was to be seen the bones of many bullocks which died on their way from the upper Hunter to Maitland rill still remain by the roadside a momento [ sic ] of the excessive drought . ’ |
| 6 | And he believes that West German voters may revolt when they realise still more clearly that they will have to foot the bill for unity . |
| 7 | Supporters of deposed President Zviad Gamsakhurdia were reported still to be active in western Georgia around Zugdidi ( near Abkhazia ) , where there were sporadic attacks and fighting between " Zviadists " and government troops . |
| 8 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 9 | When we take longer working hours into account the differential widens still further as wages per productive hour in small Japanese firms is only 46 per cent of the sum paid in large firms . |
| 10 | Last night 's death and destruction — committed by the UFF and IRA respectively — contributed still more horror and devastation to one of the most depressing weeks in recent years . |
| 11 | Fear of dying still grips our hearts . |
| 12 | If camping overnight you 'll need still more space in which to carry tent , sleeping bag and mat and cooking equipment , and for longer periods you 'll need extra clothes as well . |
| 13 | Sulien smiled , walking still . |
| 14 | She looked round her bedroom and saw that David had left his wristwatch on her bedside table ; the scent of the citrus aftershave he used still hung in the air and when finally , in despair , she turned and buried her head in the pillow , the bed beneath her was still warm with the imprint of his body . |
| 15 | You will remember that I said that the general principles I proposed still left room for discretion and interpretation . |
| 16 | Despite problems of cutbacks and a diminution of services , more than two-thirds of nurses quizzed still see their future with the National Health Service . |
| 17 | It is an establishment which distrusts individualism , which prefers to proceed through collaboration , which looks still to the state to redress the workings of the market , to resist centripetal force which the City of London exerts . |
| 18 | I encapsulated the whole scene , the dingy cubicle with its plywood partitions ; the warped lino , as undulant as the earthen floor of a barn ; Gyggle 's hideous cheesecloth shirt , the buttons pulled apart to the sternum , revealing still more tight ginger curlicues . |
| 19 | Debate still waxed hot as to whether the orange ape aliens were genuinely intelligent or merely made weapons instinctively as spiders make web . |
| 20 | The first mineral to crystallize is usually olivine , which carries on crystallizing as the magma cools until a temperature is reached at which a second mineral , pyroxene , begins to appear , and then , as the temperature drops still further , these two continue to crystallize together . |
| 21 | Times being hard , the vicious squabbles that have plagued Peru since the 1960s have broken out again , between raw-material exporters ( who want freer trade ) and manufacturers ( who want still more protection ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The ones we want still live . ’ |
| 23 | Brian Deane supports Leeds hahahahahahahahahahahahaha BRIAN DEANE , BRIAN DEANE , BRIAN DEANE Brian Deane WANTED to leave you lot and JOIN LEEDS hahahahahahahaah Never mind … youve still got … erm , … |
| 24 | They 'd approve still less if they knew what it was about , thought Zen . |
| 25 | To complicate matters further , the flats have now been given planning approval , but major work needs still to be done to meet building regulations , work which they , as the owners , must pay for . |
| 26 | The columns of men that splintered from the Kitchen to their huts were first frozen still , then drawn in concert to where the lights were brilliant , where the knees hung between the blackness and the snow . |
| 27 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 28 | In her wake , mud or no , came another French author , even more broad-minded , in the person of François Rabelais , while in the nineteenth century the spa 's literary connections became more exalted still when the great Romantic writers , Alfred de Vigny , Chateaubriand and George Sand all visited it . |
| 29 | ‘ Life is a wonderful thing , Curator , and its pulse beats still in the heart of my old friend here . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh yeah ’ I say still trying to persuade my left eyelid to lift . |