Example sentences of "was still [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still wearing the thin cotton dress that she 'd worn in the prison hospital , but now there was a shawl around her shoulders as well . |
| 2 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |
| 3 | The City was still wearing the wet look . |
| 4 | ( The ex-naval treasurer 's will was proved in April 1670 , and the co-paymaster was still serving the following year and being called to account after that . ) |
| 5 | It was no more , yet the statue of Dr Joseph Parker , one of its best known preachers , was still defying the opposing rage . |
| 6 | The cry was taken up by the loser of the previous fight who was still watching the new contest from his tree . |
| 7 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 8 | Helen was still watching the dead body of the man on the tarmac . |
| 9 | Erich Lindemann , German , was still controlling the Scandinavian sector with a forward penetration zone — Northern Russia . |
| 10 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 11 | Prentice was still holding the little Lifeboat flag , twirling the pin between his fingers . |
| 12 | The janitor was still holding the little boy 's hand . |
| 13 | Three years later he was still exercising the same power . |
| 14 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 15 | Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal . |
| 16 | At the Hinkley C Inquiry the CEGB was still quoting the lowest cost for wave power electricity as 9.8 p/kWh . |
| 17 | In the autumn of 1904 he was still rejecting the mild suggestion from Sviatopolk-Mirsky , very much along the lines of Loris-Melikov 's proposals of 1881 , that representatives of public institutions should be co-opted on to the State Council . |
| 18 | Armed flying squad officers ambushed Mr Coveley , who was still carrying the wrapped cucumber , at his home in Bethnal Green , east London , on 4 July . |
| 19 | Some years later the influential Republican senator , Robert Taft , was still exploiting the American belief that the British were " the best propagandists and the most unprincipled people " in the world when he accused Acheson , the then US secretary of state , of doing whatever the British asked him to do . |
| 20 | If it was still going the third centenary would be approaching quicker than flames on dry moorland . |