Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs , Julie looked across and saw Stark hit the floor , her attention diverted only momentarily from the blows still raining against the door . |
| 2 | No doubt the flat roof of the shattered and shell-pocked building was still guarded by Shia militia , ever watchful behind their sandbag emplacements . |
| 3 | And yet ‘ Southyork ’ is still guarded by 16 police — costing the local taxpayers £350,000 a year — and kept spick and span by a full team of servants . |
| 4 | A chair , amputated to accommodate Nasty ( and she had been nasty ) Nannie , still sat near the fireplace ; the cold grate was still guarded by its high wire fender . |
| 5 | It would be even nicer to think he was trying to make her jealous because he still cared for her and not for pure spite , and it would be nice if she sobered up and faced life 's harsh realities ! |
| 6 | The dummy was still propped over the desk , the shower curtain drawn . |
| 7 | The ex-soldier had n't moved , his big hands resting on his knees , his feet still propped on the canvas bag . |
| 8 | The coroner laughed and was still bellowing with mirth as Athelstan urged his horse forward out into the street . |
| 9 | The repercussions of that controversial decision will be the loss of Hateley for Rangers ' game against Marseille in France on 7 April and Goram was still remonstrating with anyone who would listen to his complaints as the teams left the field for the break . |
| 10 | I was still weeping with fright when Uncle Bill put me to bed . |
| 11 | Dinah was still weeping in bewilderment . |
| 12 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 13 | As the first axe cut into the Tree , a great wailing cry of agony rent the thick stifling heat of the workshop and Nuadu knew at once that the Tree had been taken down while it lived and while the naiad still dwelled within it . |
| 14 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 15 | It is notable that public holidays have become established in most parts of the world either as religious feast days , still treated as such , or have their origins in such occasions . |
| 16 | ‘ We were still treated as kids when we were in the third year , well , we still are . ’ |
| 17 | THE Chernobyl disaster was seven years ago this week ( 26 April 1986 ) is still treated as a growing menace in the Ukraine and Belarus . |
| 18 | Healers who use their hands rather than pills and potions are still treated with scepticism . |
| 19 | Even in the USA , where a radical process of resettlement got underway at an early stage , most reported episodes of mental illness are still treated at these institutions . |
| 20 | It does n't seem fair that women put in just as much effort , dedication and time as men , and are still treated in a second-class fashion . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 22 | We may say that a criterion of legal validity or source of law is supreme if rules identified by reference to it are still recognized as rules of the system , even if they conflict with rules identified by reference to the other criteria , whereas rules identified by reference to the latter are not so recognized if they conflict with the rules identified by reference to the supreme criterion . |
| 23 | Arab regimes , particularly Jordan , welcomed Israel 's reappointment of the old élite to provide municipal services , for it created the impression that the occupation was not permanent and that Jordanian authority was still recognized through the employment of its municipal and civil servants . |
| 24 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
| 25 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 26 | Great weight is still given to both of these factors but since the mid-1970s even higher qualifications have not guaranteed continued employment . |
| 27 | Although the seventeenth century saw the beginning of the end of magic in western society , some credence was still given to the supposed therapeutic properties of certain precious substances . |
| 28 | If preference was still given to diplomacy , force ( alone or in co-operation with Britain ) was not ruled out — especially in defence of oil supplies to Europe against any threat , Arab or Soviet . |
| 29 | Since the voltage is the same and the dielectric is homogeneous the electric field is still given by |
| 30 | If Veblen 's book continues to be read this is partly for its unconscious humour but partly for the comfort , however misplaced , which it offers to those still mesmerized by egalitarian ideas . |