Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [is] still [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Stepping has always been a feature of this particular village and it is still practised to a certain extent today .
2 Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye .
3 But there has been endless comment by members of the Labour Party leadership as well as others about the outcome of the election and it is still going on .
4 I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year .
5 and he 's sitting outside and he goes , he 's mum goes well he 's been out there two weeks and he 's still stood there in the same spot and he 's going like that
6 Er obviously the erm better for overseas visitors pound will help tourism in this country , particularly in London erm the Chairman says Madame Tussauds in fact gets about sixty percent visitors over from overseas , Rock Circus at the moment is about fifty percent and it 's still rising , which partially explains why it had a very good year last year .
7 ‘ She was fighting from the very first minute and she is still fighting . ’
8 Most of it is covered in water but it 's still called Earth .
9 But Hermia 's the nearest she can get to Ricky , thought Daisy and she 's still hoping he 'll turn up .
10 It made the ground and it is still making the sky .
11 Race officials decided not to award McLeod-Wright the second cup , The Journal Trophy , outright after his sixth win and it is still presented to the winner at Newcastle 's Civic Centre each year .
12 she , she came g went to the house when she came back from hospital and she 's still living in it now .
13 ‘ I went to read his Vico and it 's still crammed with his manuscript notes , bursting with them , between every page .
14 Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you .
15 Erm because it is an onerous task , erm onerous in terms of the time that needs spending doing the job even if it 's relatively simple in terms of what needs to be done it still takes time and there 's still running around to do .
16 For a year now he 's been trying to avoid packaged and drilled TV appearances , and enduring repetitive questions from bemused Europeans about sampling or acid house But he 's still managed to have some fun .
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