Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] still [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne and Sarah tried to keep the peace but Miss Meers was a slave driver , and would never allow them to stand still for a moment . |
| 2 | Slightly stunned by the abrupt landing , half dazed by the assault of the overpowering stink , I lay still for a moment on the crust , groaning and gagging . |
| 3 | you sit here , you sit still for a minute and eat , eat your sandwich and I 'll just put Joseph in the car oh what |
| 4 | Can you keep still for a minute , Kim ? |
| 5 | She kept still by an effort . |
| 6 | But I 'd settle for you sitting still for a while . " |
| 7 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 8 | For some reason this made her think of Finn , and she stood still for a moment , again waiting cautiously for any twinges of anguish , any signs of unhealed wounds . |
| 9 | She stood still for a moment , breathing the air , gazing round her . |
| 10 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 11 | She sat still for a full five minutes , then stood up brusquely . |
| 12 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
| 13 | Everybody sit still for a minute and what were you gon na say ? |
| 14 | All they wanted was for him to sit still as a stone — to be a piece of scenery , a decoration like one of the stone angels he had watched the Mason carve , up in the roofs of churches . |
| 15 | They stand still for a moment in their original positions . ) |
| 16 | Leonora clenched her teeth for an instant as her body yielded to his with a fleeting moment of pain , then she relaxed as they lay still for an instant in the very eye of the storm . |
| 17 | They sat still for a second , then Evans stood up and pushed his chair back and the others followed . |
| 18 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 19 | Rolling on to his back , he lay still as a corpse with only his face breaking the surface . |
| 20 | He lay still for a while , steadying himself , waiting for explanations to arrange themselves in his head . |
| 21 | He sat still for a while , steadying himself , waiting for explanations to arrange themselves in his head . |
| 22 | Always got like that when he sat still for a long time . |
| 23 | The noise was so loud and the light so bright that he sat still as a stone . |
| 24 | He stood still for a moment breathing deeply . |