Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was still [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released . |
| 2 | While she was still floundering for a reply , Jennifer leaned forward and touched her arm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump . |
| 5 | Dairy Crest are suing Mr Rollings for damages , claiming he canvassed for custom while he was still working for them . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |