Example sentences of "still alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name of the old homeland may have been wiped off the map , the native Tuscan village may have mutated into Chiantishire , but in London 's Soho or downtown Manhattan , in Glasgow or in East Coast America 's polyglot suburbs , these are the places where history — private and collective — is still alive . |
| 2 | It is still not clear whether the approximately 250 people still listed as missing include those whom ex-detainees say were still alive in May , or if they include the names of those last seen in 1984 or 1986 . |
| 3 | Some believe he is still alive ; he would be 77 . |
| 4 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 5 | The three women who were still alive after 10 years had all been in the therapy group . |
| 6 | As I approached someone remarked ‘ at least he is still alive . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ At least he is still alive and that 's what is important . ’ |
| 8 | How can he possibly be still alive with that large hole in his back ? ’ |
| 9 | Today , the image of the angel is still alive , and still in contention ; it has by no means been merely consigned to the museum . |
| 10 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 11 | Conscience , in fact , is still alive in this world of Neapolitan terror so that even Russell Dixon 's Cardinal , having murdered his mistress ( the fetching Patricia Kerrigan ) on a poisoned Bible , ritually crosses himself and gently caresses her hair . |
| 12 | The bright brown eyes rested on her and you could see written all over his face the jealousy that this girl , daughter to some man , was still alive while his child was gone . |
| 13 | The village of Gospel Green , home of one of my locally made cheeses ( see pp93–5 ) , was visited by cocoa-drinking Temperance missionaries , although few of the generation who received instruction are still alive . |
| 14 | ‘ Does she think her friend 's still alive ? ’ said Lee . |
| 15 | As the century grew older , this belief in divine intervention in the minutiae of life became less common ; but in certain devout households it was still alive at the century 's end . |
| 16 | All I know is , she 's still alive . |
| 17 | He 's still alive , far as I know . ’ |
| 18 | Still , it was interesting information to learn he was still alive . |
| 19 | Such people will often say , ‘ I would certainly know if he had died — I would feel it — and so I 'm sure he 's still alive . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Is your father still alive ? ’ |
| 21 | It could have been parked somewhere else on Wednesday and repositioned when our man discovered Mr Goodhaven was still alive . ’ |
| 22 | A long time seemed to pass , and I was still alive . |
| 23 | But I was still alive . |
| 24 | One or two , I was still alive . |
| 25 | Instead , he 'd looked shocked and utterly horrified at seeing me still alive . |
| 26 | After attempting for an hour to storm the church , those who were still alive to tell the tale turned back . |
| 27 | In 1987 he broke the story for Reuters that Terry Waite , who had been abducted in Beruit , was still alive . |
| 28 | ‘ Thank God , ’ cried Snow White , ‘ Dopey is still alive . ’ |
| 29 | Pugwash 's creator , John Ryan , has just discovered that Edmondson is still alive , tending a cemetery in Rothbury . |
| 30 | The odds are that he is no longer alive , but I have a silk thread hanging in there with God that he is still alive . |