Example sentences of "still [v-ing] [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 | The coroner laughed and was still bellowing with mirth as Athelstan urged his horse forward out into the street . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was still weeping with fright when Uncle Bill put me to bed . |
| 5 | Dinah was still weeping in bewilderment . |
| 6 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 7 | I 'm still coughing like , but not as bad . |
| 8 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 9 | Miss Honey was still gazing at the child in absolute wonderment , as though she were The Creation , The Beginning Of The World , The First Morning . |
| 10 | " Can I top you up , Mr Willoughby ? " asked Lucy in the most polished social manner that anyone could desire , and soon the Magistrate was drinking his third cup of hot water , and still gazing at her in fascination , or to be more precise , at the back of her neck , which was the part of her which most interested him . |
| 11 | Fairham was still gazing at the door . |
| 12 | Scott asked , noticing that Gregson was still gazing at Carol . |
| 13 | Constance was still gazing at him , swinging her foot gently and clasping her glass with both hands . |
| 14 | He shook his head , still gazing at the patterns of sunshine on the grass outside the hut . |
| 15 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 16 | While I was still gazing into the water basin , the doctor then covered me with blankets , enclosing me in total darkness . |
| 17 | Harry was still gazing after her , struggling to make sense of what had happened , when Cunningham , who had positioned himself next to him , said : ‘ Like a gazelle , eh ? ’ |
| 18 | She glanced briefly back as the doors closed behind her , and was a little surprised to see the brown-eyed doctor still gazing after her . |
| 19 | The Wollo Muslims , who were being persecuted by the Shoan army , had attacked Dessie and , though defeated , were still raiding at large . |
| 20 | The room was still circling around us . |
| 21 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm still eating in a guilty , uncomfortable way : huge amounts one day , then fasting or taking laxatives the next . |
| 23 | Trinity Square still proving to be very busy so expect a few minutes wait if you want to get yourself parked in there and have a couple of minutes wait if you want to get into the Victoria Centre that 's at the York Street entrance . |
| 24 | This year , the second on from the Festival is still proving to be a bumper one for individual membership ; we are now well in to the 900 's and it would give great satisfaction and joy to all if the magic figures ‘ 1000 ’ could appear in the membership book lovingly kept by the Treasurer and Secretary . |
| 25 | Finnan was shouting commands and swords were still flashing at the beasts who fought to clamber on board . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've probably lain like that with dozens of women , ’ she threw back at him , not caring what she said as long as she could exorcise the intimate pictures still flashing through her mind . |
| 27 | That accident victim , trucker Harry Martinson , is still recovering at home in Hatfield Road , Ipswich , following the accident in April . |
| 28 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 29 | But the European champions will again be without their injured captain Ruud Gullit , their third AC Milan player , who is still recovering from knee surgery , and the PSV midfielder Gerald Vanenburg , who has damaged knee ligaments . |
| 30 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |