Example sentences of "was still [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llewellyn , who is attached to the Tim Forster stable , was really third choice for the mount on Party Politics , as injured Andrew Adams , 27 , was still recovering from a broken knee , and Richard Dunwoody , who had also ridden the gelding , was committed to Brown Windsor . |
| 2 | Sir Roger was still recovering from a bad car accident just before Christmas . |
| 3 | Two and a half furlongs from home , Kelly could n't believe it , she was still riding with a double handful . |
| 4 | The old bag was still gouging like a ham-fisted butcher — face like a turkey-cock . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 7 | This was still overmanning to a considerable degree by world standards . |
| 8 | At first Peter 's parents thought he was still suffering from a recent bout of whooping cough , but when he started a second bottle of C-vit they noticed the drink had fermented , turning some of the juice into alcohol . |
| 9 | Kursell v. Timber Operators ( 1927 C.A ) concerned the sale of timber which at the time the contract was made was still growing in a Latvian forest . |
| 10 | Perhaps he was still groping towards a fully-formed constitutional blueprint . |