Example sentences of "he [was/were] still [v-ing] for the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in .
3 While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump .
4 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 .
5 ‘ '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 .
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