Example sentences of "still [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 2 | Does your kitchen look like an operating theatre , or are you still cooking in a replica Sienese farmhouse ? |
| 3 | Captain Phillips , who was divorced from Anne eight months ago , still lives in a cottage there . |
| 4 | Despite driving a £30,000 Mercedes — cars , as well as goals , are his obsession — he still lives in a mining village near Barnsley with his parents . |
| 5 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 6 | I caught the leave ship while he , poor man , was still snoring in a room above an estaminet near the station . |
| 7 | Still caught in a clench of emotion after the effort of the ceremony , he had accepted a spilling cup of whisky from Donald McLaggan and drained it as though it was milk to quench a thirst . |
| 8 | She went slowly down the path to the gate , turned into the main road for the Underground , still dream-walking , still caught in a web of intimations , reminders , promptings . |
| 9 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 10 | At one end of this dim room was an open fireplace , in which a few huge logs still smouldered in a bed of white ash ; on either side of this were two heavy , curved and padded armchairs , covered in velvet , a dark charcoal colour , pattered with dark purple flowers , a kind of glamorised fin-de-siècle bindweed . |
| 11 | Yet in the late 20th century sound recording is still developing in a way that older media are not . |
| 12 | The main criticism levelled here was that users found it difficult to come off while still living in an environment ‘ full of junkies ’ . |
| 13 | Sampling all the expensive-looking sachets , courtesy of the hotel , she had a nice refreshing shower , and , still wrapped in a bath sheet , repacked her case . |
| 14 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 15 | She made sure that the door was properly shut , and then said , still speaking in a whisper , " There have been a lot of rumours in the office . |
| 16 | He still stays in a church house and has converted part of it into a chapel , where he celebrates mass for 200 people every Sunday . |
| 17 | Mill 's reply , in effect , was that the middle class , " the class which is universally described as both the most wise and the most virtuous part of the community " , would still dominate in a democracy , because : " Of the people beneath them , a vast majority would be sure to be guided by their advice and example . " |
| 18 | This 1853 analogy , once it has got going , also proves hard to stop : it is still running in a letter to George Sand of 1868 . |
| 19 | I still believe in a God . |
| 20 | I still believe in a place called Hope . |
| 21 | I STILL believe in a place called Hope . |
| 22 | They still tackle in a powerhouse manner , and the message to England is clear . |
| 23 | Her heartbeat was still quickening in a crescendo . |
| 24 | Dexter had been to the hospital where Nowak still lay in a coma . |
| 25 | I mean we still live , which is a sad fact , but we still live in a society where we were like lepers , we still live in a society where you can still reject , and it should n't be that ; you should n't have the option to reject , you should have the support there . |
| 26 | I mean we still live , which is a sad fact , but we still live in a society where we were like lepers , we still live in a society where you can still reject , and it should n't be that ; you should n't have the option to reject , you should have the support there . |
| 27 | As a standby for the Lions tour to New Zealand , he still puts in a training stint every day and can be seen regularly burning up the track at Mary P or pumping iron in the Queen 's PE centre . |
| 28 | And as Rex and Khai Eng , still thriving in an area which has seen plenty of other vegetarian establishments come and go , get ready to enter their second decade , perhaps we 'll leave the last word to Rex : |
| 29 | ‘ And do you still sing in a nightclub ? ’ |
| 30 | Other multinational companies like Thermo-King , Baird , Northern Telecom and Crown Control still survive in a city which has other major employers in third level education , hospitals and the tourist industry . |