Example sentences of "[pers pn] is still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text implies that Veronica has tea separately from John as she is still fed by her mother . |
| 2 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 3 | ‘ She is still feeding . |
| 4 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 5 | Mrs Hall , 75 , revealed that despite Judith 's brave face , she is still struggling to come to terms with the betrayal . |
| 6 | Her wrists were reset and to this day , two years later , she is still seeking compensation . |
| 7 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 8 | His wife Val contributes a postscript in which she reveals , rather wanly , that she is still looking forward to her honeymoon , postponed because of a rugby match . |
| 9 | Jean now works in the Design Studio making hand samples for special designs and development work , although occasionally she is still called upon to ‘ colour count ’ . |
| 10 | She felt so strongly about the situation she removed Christopher , now 13 , from mainstream education and says she is still hoping to have his LEA provision reviewed . |
| 11 | And she is still recognised by people in the street thanks to her TV appearances all those years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ This awful aunt , ’ Matilda said , ‘ I suppose she is still living in your lovely old house ? ’ |
| 13 | But an article in the new edition of Vanity Fair magazine claims she is still living in Britain . |
| 14 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 15 | When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place . |
| 16 | ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’ |
| 17 | A young married woman my office has tried to adopt a baby since she had a hysterectomy , and she is still waiting after a year . |
| 18 | She is still waiting , alas in vain . |
| 19 | Old ships never die and doubtless she is still knocking around the East Coast , though I suppose old Payne may have made his last port by now I should be interested in an oil painting on canvas , or board ( which I suppose would come a bit cheaper ! ! ) showing her beating around the Foreland under sail in fairly heavy weather , say Force 6 … ’ |
| 20 | She is still surrounded by baroque clutter . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't believe she is still behaving like this after all these years . ’ |
| 22 | She is still working as Assistant to the President of Delaware North Companies International Ltd. with her responsibilities recently enlarged to include personnel and legal matters in their Asian subsidiaries . |
| 23 | ‘ She was fighting from the very first minute and she is still fighting . ’ |
| 24 | I am glad to say she is now beautiful but , even after all this time , she is still having nightmares ( though not often ) and is extremely nervous . |
| 25 | He said in a grave tone that would have done credit to the S.M.O. , ‘ So she is still having to stay in her bedroom ? |
| 26 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 27 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 28 | Now eleven years on , she is still teased and when to her dismay she gets her first period , the girls start chanting and throwing tampons at her . |
| 29 | She is still haunted by the grief of her husband 's death and this causes her to shrink into her own world of deception . |
| 30 | Apart from looking after the home and having babies , she is still expected to do most of the manual work on the land as her husband may be working abroad or in Funchal or just resting . |