Example sentences of "was still [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to the boundless optimism of the 1960s the country was still recovering from the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate and undergo-ing a crisis of confidence in both political leaders and institutions . |
| 2 | Nu was still supported by the minorities , including the efficient units of the Karen , Kachin and Chin Rifles . |
| 3 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |
| 4 | Jack was still absorbed in the instructions . |
| 5 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 6 | Even Tyrrell , with Scheckter and Depailler , was still hunting with the leaders . |
| 7 | She was still dazed by the revelations of the past half-hour as she went up the stairs . |
| 8 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 9 | He was still looking at the envelopes as they went into a sitting-room at the end of the passage . |
| 10 | On the one hand , before the Fall man could not have enjoyed exhaustive certainty , for he was still bound by the limitations of his finiteness , though not of his sinfulness . |
| 11 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 12 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic . |
| 13 | His eyes gleamed , but he imagined it was still to do with the vistas shown to the merchant by the Genius of Riches . |
| 14 | It seemed Blunset was still wandering through the corridors and Endill looked forward to their next meeting . |
| 15 | Despite their presence a bull was still run through the streets , to the enjoyment of some four thousand people , and the burden of the cost ( around £300 ) was born by Stamford . |
| 16 | When his son and Devraux arrived at his side , however , he was still squinting through the sights of his raised rifle , watching the herd break up to enter the jungle . |
| 17 | Work was still provided for the casuals , however , and granite blocks were purchased — the broken stone was to be used for paths at the institution . |
| 18 | Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face . |
| 19 | That was in January 1950 , when Europe was still reeling from the revelations of the Nazi death-camps , opened less than five years before , and the voluminous confirmations of the Nuremberg trials of what war-criminals had done there . |
| 20 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 21 | The rain was still beating on the windows , and I could hear the wind in the trees . |
| 22 | Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp . |
| 23 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 24 | The special field of organic chemistry was already flourishing , though this was still confined to the properties — mainly the properties useful in production — of materials derived from sources that had once been alive , such as coal . |
| 25 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 26 | For months , no-one told him he was still suffering from the effects of his head injury . |
| 27 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 28 | The 1970s witnessed a number of developments of this sort and during the days when OPEC was still negotiating with the companies over prices , a device was contrived whereby if the dollar went down , the oil price went up and vice versa . |
| 29 | Compulsory primary education had not yet been introduced by the state , and the educational system , from church school to university , was still dominated by the clergy and their middle-class values . |
| 30 | The snake was now allowed to float against the other major currencies , but a maximum spread of 2¼ per cent was still retained for the currencies in the snake . |