He knocked over the remains of whatever nests still stood, he broke low-hanging branches from the trees, he screamed and howled.

NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

He just stood there, still.

NEWYORKER: Bullfighting

Both he and the dog stood stock-still with surprise.

ECONOMIST: Robert Taylor

Within a few hours, he forgot that he had given the order, and in a few dozen years he in turn was forgotten, but these trees still stood, enormous now, some of them dead and looming without bark, white and leafless.

NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

Boris Johnson is still listed as MP for Henley even though he stood down in May 2008.

BBC: Oxford's BT Phone Book has MP detail errors

He complimented her when she finished speaking, while she still stood behind him, not wanting to look at him.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

Still, the issues on which he and his commanders stood ground till the last moment were more than technicalities.

ECONOMIST: Peace, for now, in Kosovo

However British Conservative MEP Ashley Fox said he welcomed the new agreement as it stood, saying it improved openness and transparency whilst still maintaining the "legitimate right of member states for confidentiality of certain documents".

BBC: Debate on access to documents

Outside, the first officer to encounter Holmes -- who was still dressed in body armor, a helmet and a gas mask as he stood near his car -- described him as unnaturally relaxed.

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They still didn't say a word to each other, and within seconds, he'd stood up.

BBC

Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit stood down as head of the supervisory board overseeing the project on Monday, as he acknowledged the airport would still not be ready for its latest scheduled opening on October 27.

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