Example sentences of "[was/were] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sawyers at the government mill at Kinlochrannoch were good friends of Cameron 's , and might try to bring out their neighbours , although they themselves were still felt to be incomers . |
| 2 | you 'd take with your insurance company to make sure you were still covered if anything untoward happened while , you know . |
| 3 | The rate of increase of river flow will be greater in the urbanized basin than it would be if the basin were still covered by natural vegetation . |
| 4 | Arriving back at the large beach house , she took the two sleepy children upstairs to their large bedroom , firmly overriding their protests that no , they really did n't want a bath by pointing out to them that they were still covered with sand and sea water . |
| 5 | Most second-year students had not returned yet ; they were still struggling back from cycling holidays in Iran . |
| 6 | The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events . |
| 7 | Mike Nichols and Lawrence Turman , who were still struggling after six months to find their leading man , took in the show one night . |
| 8 | It seemed terribly wrong that her family were still struggling even now to keep their heads above water , that many like them were close to starvation , when the clothes she , Alice , was wearing would have kept them in food for at least half a year . |
| 9 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 10 | It was the same in the the pantomimes when Lily has learnt learnt the dancing , I could er after she had showed us about twice I could I could have it no bother and the rest of them were still struggling away trying to learn the steps . |
| 11 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |
| 12 | ‘ We were n't getting anywhere and the ANC said they were still to reach a decision . |
| 13 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 14 | But in the aftermath of the bid , while suggestions that TI paid too much for Dowty were still flying around the City , the group won praise and respect from many analysts when it released a detailed account of the provisions it would be making in connection with the takeover — £87.1m in all , of which £41m represents asset write-offs and £46.1m additional expenditure that TI will have to incur . |
| 15 | Indeed this is proven by the fact that some of the original 1 Squadron crews of 1950 were still flying in 2 Squadron Canberra medium bombers over South Vietnam over a decade later . |
| 16 | The sun was low on the horizon now and the birds were still flying in from ‘ pre-roost assembly points ’ . |
| 17 | They were still flying in . |
| 18 | Our announcing staff at CBR had been enhanced by the addition of Ray Mackness , Sheila Russell , Ted Devlin and Saul Ornest , but the main shows were still handled by the old reliables , Dick Halhed and Bill Herbert . |
| 19 | Unfortunately they carried no ammunition and all guns were still packed in grease . |
| 20 | However , the regular use of overtime meant that adult male manual workers were still undertaking an average week of 44.2 hours in 1988 . |
| 21 | Yeo rubbed the back of his neck irritably , and reached for his coffee , downing two cups while McLeish and Catherine Crane were still passing each other milk and sugar . |
| 22 | Waders were still passing through : spotted redshank , whimbrel , bar-tailed godwit … |
| 23 | ‘ We were still treated as kids when we were in the third year , well , we still are . ’ |
| 24 | The little girls were still watching me , now rather doubtfully , I thought , so with a mighty effort I changed my whole concept of what I was , in order to respond . |
| 25 | She turned round , checked that the men were still watching her and , sticking her bottom out , sashayed to the car , chuckling at the chorus of loud wolf-whistles . |
| 26 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 27 | The three young men had moved back some twenty or thirty feet , but were still watching Jessica . |
| 28 | We were still writing our own separate poems , and one I did started : |
| 29 | French poets , in the eleventh century , discovered or invented , or were the first to express , that romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth . |
| 30 | Ten years after their retirement they were still writing . |