Example sentences of "was still [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC Monitoring Service used them for deciphering ‘ jammed ’ radio broadcasts , and my solicitor , at least , was still dictating into an Edison Voicewriter in 1973 . |
| 2 | At a time when Portugal was still living under a dictatorship in which homespun nationalist values were lauded , she was criticised for lavishing large budgets on a series of international music festivals . |
| 3 | He was still acting as a trustee for the officers and men of the artillery train when additional compensation was voted out of crown lands in the act of 1652 ; a misleading reference from May of that year has led some authorities to assume that he was dead by then . |
| 4 | Which was why it was so intriguing to hear that he had told one or more of the SRU 's top brass that while Peter Wright was still scrummaging like a tight-head prop in that — one would have thought very wisely — he did not attempt any of the seasoned loose-head 's tricks of the trade , he had found him a good , strong and heavy scrummager , difficult to budge . |
| 5 | Mr Parker said yesterday he was still looking for a replacement backer . |
| 6 | Her heartbeat was still quickening in a crescendo . |
| 7 | It became clear that Iran was still aiming at a battlefield victory , posing specific preconditions for an end to the war : reparations and the removal of Saddam and his entire regime . |
| 8 | Soon after the return of the Beagle , when he was still seeking for a mechanism for evolution , he began a series of notebooks , the M and N notebooks , which are in effect a search for a materialist theory of psychology : they are concerned with anything — for example , the effects of drugs , of ageing — which suggests that thoughts are influenced by the state of the brain . |
| 9 | He was still grinning like a fox . |
| 10 | Managing director Mike Widmer said he was still waiting for a decision from the transport department but he felt pressure to move had gone . |
| 11 | When she put the glass down , she saw that he was still waiting for a reply . |
| 12 | VIRGIN Atlantic 's owner , Richard Branson , who is seeking compensation from British Airways for dirty tricks against his airline , was still waiting for an agreement last night . |
| 13 | Doncaster , however , absorbed cur-rent rumours and news from the court from them : Henry III , then in Paris , was still convalescing from an illness and was unlikely to move before Christmas . |
| 14 | Although it was light outside the tent , music was still blaring from a disco in the comer and Henry was dancing about the floor , ashen-faced and wide-eyed . |
| 15 | I caught the leave ship while he , poor man , was still snoring in a room above an estaminet near the station . |
| 16 | While she was still floundering for a reply , Jennifer leaned forward and touched her arm . |
| 17 | Maxie was still staring at a half cup of coffee . |