Example sentences of "still [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haroun still lay there fighting for his life . |
| 2 | The global situation is that accidents such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have initiated a move away from nuclear power but many countries still remain fully committed to its development , albeit with greater concern for safety standards and procedures at nuclear reactors . |
| 3 | Thus , out of the 11 still preferring home care in the action sample nine answered quite specifically in terms of the feasibility of continued home care ( albeit with a wish in some cases for more community services ) . |
| 4 | Cos it really does , it still goes on settling into the |
| 5 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 6 | It needs time to recoup its investment in Pentium , and still has plenty left to milk in the 80486 . |
| 7 | And an expert on the case believes she still has n't come to terms with what she 's done . |
| 8 | Sybil still has n't got over the shock — and do n't you go insulting my family . |
| 9 | One might point out that this morning he issued to the press a 20-page document which he still has not come to the House to answer for . |
| 10 | Taller , stronger , not so blonde but much more decisive than their mother , she still seemed perpetually astonished by life . |
| 11 | The wedding party still seemed happily merged with the convention , and , without having any choice in the matter , Ellie was absorbed into the friendly crowd . |
| 12 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long legged on him even allowing for these ponies ' generous girths . |
| 13 | Which is why she still prefers not to speak of them . |
| 14 | Mireille eventually met Rob Andrew , the Lions captain , and he too ended up with a bouquet , which he was still wondering how to dispose of as his players began to line up . |
| 15 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 16 | Some 15 years after the start of the modern women 's movement in the US , most men still do little of the housework or child care , still feel enormously threatened by wives who work or ( worse ) earn more than they do , and still abandon their children financially or emotionally after a divorce . |
| 17 | ‘ I still feel somewhat gobsmacked by the way he appointed me . |
| 18 | Now began the real fight for the story , the exclusive , the Kiss ‘ n ’ Tell , which was mostly played out long-range from London , where the editors snarled and the home-side pack were still running around looking for defence ministers or Gorbachev or Cabinet luminaries . |
| 19 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 20 | But when love fails us , we must still go on believing in it . |
| 21 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 22 | She sneaked a glance at Piers , who still looked highly entertained at events . |
| 23 | He still knew how to get under their skin . |
| 24 | Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them . |
| 25 | What 's important is that I still go on working with old friends like Ian McDiarmid at small theatres like the Almeida . ’ |
| 26 | His active part in trying to uplift the Harijan community ( and himself ) by inviting us 15 years ago to rebuild the village , is in stark contrast to other Brahmins who still stay safely hidden in the bamboo groves with their purity intact . |
| 27 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
| 28 | ‘ I still do n't want to be confirmed , sir . ’ |
| 29 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 30 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |