Example sentences of "[conj] still [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tradition says that with other Covenanters he was hanged from the upstairs window of the house that still stands at the north-west corner of Mauchline Cross . |
| 2 | A labourer 's cottage that still stands at the edge of the former wood was a one bay dwelling , open to the rafters , built by John Hughes in the 1580s and enlarged by the Hanmers during the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Grimly they hung on , staring at the graduated circle of the instrument , and the indicator that still rested at ‘ start engines ’ . |
| 4 | If you are over 18 and still living at home with your family , you will receive your own Poll Tax bill . |
| 5 | She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford . |
| 6 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 7 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 8 | He moved his head slowly and still looked at me in silence . |
| 9 | " 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 . |
| 10 | Harry 's gaze was fixed on the stranger and still looking at him he nodded . |
| 11 | Expressed as crude annual rates per thousand , they fell from 23 in 1861–65 to 12 in 1931–35 , but have since shown no further improvement due to the ageing of the population , and still stood at 11.4 in 1988 . |
| 12 | Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ? |
| 13 | It could be built , operated for 40 years , fully decommissioned — and still produce at well under 3 pence per unit at an 8 per cent rate of return , competitive with new coal , new gas and French nuclear stations . |
| 14 | The well had to access two potential reservoir compartments and a 600m ‘ barrier ’ in the central horizontal section and still produce at more than 55mscfd . |
| 15 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 16 | It would seem obvious that at least some of those practitioners had not in fact vanished at all , but still existed at the time of the Crusades . |
| 17 | George Beto , now in semi-retirement but still teaching at the Center , is one of the main actors in the story . |
| 18 | There were more horses coming now , less hurriedly than the advance party , but still approaching at a brisk speed from the Cross . |
| 19 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 20 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 21 | Bill has n't actually finished his permanently in the drivers , but they ca n't so he choose the one that 's got to go , but in the meantime there 's these two other guys they closed down , and er , these two buyers they got redundancy money , they drive and they can go through there and still work so they 've got the money but still work at so there coining it in . |
| 22 | The beggar , usually so garrulous but still dumbstruck at what he had seen , just stared and nodded , open-mouthed . |
| 23 | You know how some sports cars manage to look like they are doing about a hundred miles while still parked at the kerb ? |
| 24 | As implied by his reference to wearing Messel 's costumes , John had begun by May , while still working at the Sadler 's Wells School , to appear in the corps de ballet at Covent Garden , although only in The Sleeping Beauty which needed a large cast . |
| 25 | By now finances were brightening and whilst still running at a loss , this was entirely because of spending on improvements . |