Example sentences of "still [verb] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in shirt sleeves but still looked dressed in his dark tie , trousers and waistcoat . |
| 2 | Mitterrand still seemed rattled in September 1990 at the summit which preceded unification in October . |
| 3 | Er human testing and immunizations is still going gone in this are and I hope it wo n't ever stop . |
| 4 | Lacking only her native forest ( now probably half chewed away by acid rain ) , and the dorf ( whose last inhabitants ' bones still lie jumbled in a secret pit ) our Anya has found herself a little home from home . |
| 5 | That may even have been an underestimate since the count was made mainly in the dry , lowland areas whereas numbers of elephants may still have existed in undeveloped parts of the central mountain massif . |
| 6 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 7 | I still feel justified in taking that stance , especially as the people of Scotland , aided by the Scottish National party , were partly instrumental in ensuring the downfall of that tax . |
| 8 | Many were still feared trapped in the rubble . |
| 9 | We crossed the market square , passing the makeshift scaffold where the bloody corpses of the men executed earlier still lay bound in dirty canvas sheets . |
| 10 | several weeks previously , still lay packed in straw- and grit-speckled drifts on the sunless north-facing sides of the houses and thorn bush hedges . |
| 11 | Although the long-term trend is towards greater equality , most wealth still remains concentrated in the hands of a small minority . |
| 12 | ‘ My lady , ’ he said , ‘ before Sir Brian or Sir Fulke , ’ he glanced contemptuously at the girl 's uncle who still sat slumped in his chair , ‘ challenge me to a duel , I apologise profusely . ’ |