Example sentences of "they still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poems in the book are a mixture of classics from well-loved writers to lesser known poets — many of them still writing today |
| 2 | The windows are now boarded up , but the rocks which came through them still litter the floor . |
| 3 | Er not all of them still existed , erm and three of the ponds , eleven o of the eleven ponds erm referred to in the erm three of them were in gardens . . |
| 4 | Defeat for the Gunners in this live televised Sunday spectacular would be the title favourites ' third straight loss and leave them still looking for their first point . |
| 5 | The rest of them still to go . |
| 6 | There has long been a tradition of separating these ‘ special ’ clinics from the rest of the hospital , and many of them still go under euphemistic titles such as ‘ Martha and Luke ’ clinic , James Pringle House , or ‘ Lydia ’ clinic . |
| 7 | Carrie thought of all the people she knew in the world , all of them still eating and breathing and walking about , and then of Mrs Gotobed , lying still . |
| 8 | The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding . |
| 9 | All of them still possessed big overseas empires , in spite of the losses sustained by Spain and Portugal , and they were all heirs to traditions of worldwide enterprise . |
| 10 | Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page . |
| 11 | One of them still had two or three mouthfuls of wine in it . |
| 12 | The nightmare vision is : down to three or four , with one of them still held by Sir Nicholas Fairbairn — try staffing the Scottish Office with that . |
| 13 | His head was against her knees ; the parcels lay about them still wrapped , being easier to pack . |
| 14 | The aims which I put up there , I wo n't go through each one , I think are hopefully fairly self explanatory , the , some of those are going well and some of them still need a hard push , a hard push from us and a hard push from the clubs and the teaching establishments . |
| 15 | All the boys in Take That are careful with money , three of them still live at home with mum — and their parents make cups of tea for the adoring fans who wait outside their homes . |
| 16 | The Greeks used to know this part of the world well , and a scattering of them still live in Romania , Bulgaria and as far east as Ukraine . |
| 17 | Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation , political repression , malnutrition and ecological crisis . |
| 18 | Our ties with them still matter , though they have been weakened by Australasia 's dependence on the United States for security and by our entry into the EEC . |
| 19 | It is often the way with Mughal ruins : while the more primitive forts which preceded them still have an aura of power as they rise solid and impregnable from the burning plains , the silky refinement expressed in Mughal architecture turns , in decay , to something approaching seediness . |
| 20 | And a lot of them still have n't worked in large organizations |
| 21 | Even though some of the most dangerous and persistent toxins , including polychlorinated biphenyls , PCBs , are no longer manufactured , quantities of them still exist , and must be got rid of . |
| 22 | Welcome back : The number of children excluded or expelled from schools in the Central South area rose by forty-two per cent last year , yet the facilties to help them still vary widely . |
| 23 | It is because there is so much potential in individuals that even the largest degree of stretch that we can put on them still leaves plenty more capacity , provided it is applied gradually , like stretching elastic ; and I believe this is a prime feature of an organization which utilizes the skills of its people . |
| 24 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 25 | In 1806 a handful of major companies — the Sun Fire Office ( 1710 ) , the Royal Exchange Assurance ( 1721 ) and the Phoenix Fire Office ( 1782 ) — between them still transacted 60 per cent of fire insurance . |
| 26 | Customers are also scared off by prices , he added , because some of them still believe that fault-tolerance means simply installing two machines that cost twice as much . |
| 27 | The shares are worthless , and it goes against the grain to see them still quoted , written down as they are . " |
| 28 | The belated heatwave has left many of them still itching — from insect bites . |
| 29 | The dogmatic gap between them still looks unbridgeable : Right against Left , Christian against secular , ancient against modern . |
| 30 | Mr Leach , who had originally opposed Mr Taylor 's selection on procedural grounds , said : ‘ Some of them still treat me as an ally and I know what they are saying . |