Example sentences of "still [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , nothing spiritualistic ! — dead authors still communicate as you read . |
| 2 | It was still raining but less heavily . |
| 3 | It was still raining and a strong wind was blowing . |
| 4 | But his tone was still guarded and still edged with hostility . |
| 5 | It really did still hurt that he believed her capable of such evil . |
| 6 | Today , the USS Arizona and USS Utah still lay where they were sunk , as a lasting memorial to the servicemen who died on December 7 , 1941 . |
| 7 | More of a wallet than a purse , it still lay where the man had dropped it . |
| 8 | The bag and its gruesome contents still lay where Cranston had dropped it . |
| 9 | Discarding the bird bone , Grimm gathered up Meh'Lindi 's silk gown , stole and slippers from where they still lay and headed for the bedroom door , followed by Meh'Lindi . |
| 10 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 11 | Is she still seeing that chap ? |
| 12 | Thus , although NCp7 forms a stable complex with the oligonucleotide , the ends of the DNA are still recognized and cleaved by IN . |
| 13 | I mean , we are all er very sympathetic at the end of the twentieth century , but , you know , we can still laugh when somebody says fart on stage . |
| 14 | She was still shaken that anyone should calmly kiss her when she had not been long widowed , but his remark stung her into retort . |
| 15 | Still shaken and bemused by what had happened , she looked back at him blankly . |
| 16 | But she really must send Charlie her new address and tell him how peculiar it all was ; about the strange customs , still revered because Nelson had established them ; about rooms which were now cabins , walls which had become bulkheads and a kitchen she must now call a galley . |
| 17 | Aid agencies still fear that crop substitution projects will endanger the lives of their staff . |
| 18 | But many still fear and dislike the idea of ending up in a home . |
| 19 | Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards . |
| 20 | When the majority have formed their beautiful chrysalises , which can vary in colour from bright green to spangled gold , it is a good idea to collect those caterpillars that are still eating and release them into a large clump of nettles so you can concentrate on hatching the rest . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Forget not good enough , she was still eating and drinking and her flat was usually warm . |
| 23 | Between two of these villages , off the beaten track , lay an old farmhouse , part-ruined by fire , but with one wing still furnished and habitable , in a shallow valley and approached by a single track . |
| 24 | Difficult questions may still arise if an employee misleads a trading partner as to the contents of the terms . |
| 25 | The idea still persists that organized Christianity has only recently stumbled upon these truths . |
| 26 | If the Chief those to also want to improve passenger comfort but let me say in spite of all this er th th th the customer still favour and that is why we will be supporting the Labour resolution because it is about the state of it is about yes to keep our eyes and sort of providing a whole range of integrated public transport that goes along in parallel with that same . |
| 27 | He ran back and into the house , first to his own room , and then into the other half of the cottage , feeling a strange compulsion to find something , as if there were some crucial thing , upon which everything else depended , which was still hidden and must not be left behind . |
| 28 | Many Western Marxists still deny that the experience of Eastern bloc countries has any direct relevance for the future planned performance of Western economies following their transformation into socialism . |
| 29 | Such pressure was , however , still limited and the coming of the costly Boer War put a temporary halt to such hopes . |
| 30 | The sun still threw its dappled mantle and the trees still creaked and resonantly vibrated in the oldest of symphonies . |