Example sentences of "[pers pn] was still [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was still waiting for the doctor to arrive . |
| 2 | She was still searching for the " satisfying things in life " ; somewhere she could find herself . |
| 3 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 4 | While she was still floundering for a reply , Jennifer leaned forward and touched her arm . |
| 5 | The Home Office confirmed that it was still looking for a ‘ parliamentary opportunity ’ to fulfil the promise . |
| 6 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 7 | But , when asked whether he was still looking for a new goalkeeper despite Hitchcock 's form , Porterfield said : ‘ We are always looking to improve our squad of players and we will keep searching . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Parker said yesterday he was still looking for a replacement backer . |
| 9 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 10 | While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump . |
| 11 | Soon after the return of the Beagle , when he was still seeking for a mechanism for evolution , he began a series of notebooks , the M and N notebooks , which are in effect a search for a materialist theory of psychology : they are concerned with anything — for example , the effects of drugs , of ageing — which suggests that thoughts are influenced by the state of the brain . |
| 12 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 13 | When she put the glass down , she saw that he was still waiting for a reply . |
| 14 | Managing director Mike Widmer said he was still waiting for a decision from the transport department but he felt pressure to move had gone . |
| 15 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |