Example sentences of "still [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dummy was still propped over the desk , the shower curtain drawn . |
| 2 | The old bricks were still scattered over the foreshore . |
| 3 | Early in 1953 Britain and Egypt were still deadlocked over the future of the Suez base , while no settlement seemed in prospect to the dispute with Iran over the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 4 | She was still positioned over the table , and could feel the full weight of his body stretched over her back . |
| 5 | The wall opposite the sink and the window was covered with an oak dresser , very old and probably valuable , if it had been possible to remove it from the wall without its collapse , and the original row of bells still hung over the door each with its Gothic script ; drawing room , dining room , study , nursery . |
| 6 | I wondered if I should climb into a barge and pole myself across but the mists still hung over the water , I was cold , frightened , and so , following Benjamin 's instructions , returned to my own chamber . |
| 7 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |
| 8 | The name Babbidge still written over the doors . |
| 9 | His gaze came back to George , still sprawled over the control desk . |
| 10 | The choir is still raised over the vaulted crypt which contains primitive , baseless columns ( 399 ) . |
| 11 | In 1911 Mr Tom Hodge still presided over the firm bearing his name : a handsome , white-haired gentleman of fifty and the most conservative imaginable . |
| 12 | Packets leaving the wrapping machine still passed over the checkweigher as before but now , instead of merely passing or rejecting each pack , the computer captured the data it measured and performed various analyses including the average weight and standard deviation for each hour . |