Example sentences of "were still [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights were still on , and a cassette was clicking in a tape deck . |
| 2 | The lights were still on in Victor 's when Chantal screeched her motorcycle to a standstill outside . |
| 3 | His trousers were still on , but the zip had been torn open , and there were few parts of his body tha– were not covered in bruises . |
| 4 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 5 | It once went cold , although the little red lights were still on . |
| 6 | The waitresses in the Adelphi Tearooms wished that the pantomime were still on . |
| 7 | The cous cousins Margaret and Joan have been found and I told you we found Tony while we were still on with Malcolm who was looking for him . |
| 8 | Andrea told the hearing : ‘ I woke up about 3.30am and all the lights were still on . |
| 9 | Bastard Russians were still up to their old tricks . |
| 10 | Only Jenny and Sara were still up , sitting in Sara 's room . |
| 11 | Bill Westland , environmental projects manager for Darlington Council , disclosed the ploy to the authority 's working party on the control of dogs yesterday after announcing there were still up to 50 unregistered dangerous dogs , such as pit bull terriers and Japanese Tosas , being kept in the town . |
| 12 | No she still buys smooth erm I remember I must have been about three years old , it was when we were still up North and mummy was dashing out , it was breakfast time and she go easy on the peanut butter , there 's hardly any left . |
| 13 | Most eventually got honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards — alias the ‘ Whoops , sorry , we forgot you ’ Oscars , or even ‘ Whoops , sorry , we did n't know you were still around ’ , as happened to Sophia Loren in January , thirty years after she won Best Actress for Two Women . |
| 14 | It exploited softies like Tit for Two Tats ( too forgiving ) while these were still around . |
| 15 | A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place . |
| 16 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 17 | ‘ Report on what happened to the wallet , ’ said Joe , thinking he needed to watch out in case Blackbeard and the bruiser were still around . |
| 18 | She should give his hello to any of the boys who were still around and in the meantime could think of the home they were going to build in South Africa . |
| 19 | Despite the sceptics who were still around in the 1980s , the science now ranks in the top ten technologies ( in terms of US patents issued 1992 ) alongside medical products , electronics and advanced materials . |
| 20 | The blinds were still down and there was a closed notice on the door , but there was no longer a uniformed man outside . |
| 21 | On several occasions I would find myself at 1,000 ft or above , and the undercarriage was still down : the flaps , if we had put any out , were still down : the engines were belting away in line pitch ; and the mixture control remained where it was — in rich . |
| 22 | Mr Tony Blair , Labour employment spokesman , said while the rate of increase in unemployment had slowed , more people were still out of work than in virtually every other EC country . |
| 23 | These had all NUM members out at the start of the strike , and the great majority were still out six months later . |
| 24 | We were still out in empty space miles from anywhere . |
| 25 | A subsequent economic recovery followed , but unemployment was slow to fall , and 1 million were still out of work in June 1924 ( 9.2 per cent ) . |
| 26 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I did n't suppose you were ; sorry , I just did n't expect to see you — I thought you were still out with Feargal . ’ |
| 28 | I thought you were still out . ’ |
| 29 | Of those offences 24 were committed by five juveniles , who were still out on bail . |
| 30 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |