Example sentences of "was still [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , to test their intelligence we decided to show each horse a plate of oats , and while it was still watching to place the food inside the ring of the tire with the empty feed bucket on top . |
| 2 | He did not abandon the results of these strenuous efforts under the stress of emotion : through all the superficial symptoms of strong feeling , he was still seeking to follow the principle of life to which he was committed by his monastic vows . |
| 3 | Male rival Jean Charest , 34 , scored 1,369 votes , or 39pc and was still hoping to upset the front-runner in the next ballot , though Campbell needs only 71 more votes to win . |
| 4 | In this context , Felicity ( Alice was still trying to banish the word ‘ squaw ’ from her mind ) Felicity gave off an impression of light and warmth , as if she had never presented herself as dark . |
| 5 | Chester was still trying to persuade the Committee that there was no urgency about reducing sulphur emissions . |
| 6 | A couple he met quite recently — Nick , do n't you dare come in here in those muddy boots ! ’ she yelled , utterly confusing Hilary , who was still trying to digest the fact that Gwen thought Leo looked amiable . |
| 7 | Twenty minutes later , she was still trying to forget the way he had looked at her before slamming the door behind him . |
| 8 | She was still trying to win the woman 's confidence . |
| 9 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 10 | He was still trying to govern the Church from what he took to be the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 11 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |