1.   I was keeping it alive but getting no flowers, no repeats of the salmon-colored blossoms that caught my eye at the nursery.

2.   The others are caught in the limbo of recovery, grateful to be alive but wondering whether the aftereffects, both physical and psychological, will ever subside.

3.   Tropical waterlilies can be used as annuals or overwintered, kept alive but not actively growing, in a greenhouse in a washtub.

4.   Inside he found the dead and five people still alive but passing out apparently from lack of oxygen.

5.   Inside he found six men and two children dead, and five people still alive but passing out apparently from lack of oxygen.

6.   One cow stood alive but still, her stomach hanging out from a gash in her side.

7.   He added that the sound of an old person, alive but breathing with difficulty, had been picked up in the ruins.

8.   He added that the sound of an old person, alive but breathing with difficulty had been picked up in the ruins.

9.   She was alive but only just.

10.   The co-pilot, believed to be a New Zealander, is also alive but the pilot and two passengers are dead.