Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] still [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 2 | Lorna Lewis might not have made a picture since a flopperoo called It Happened in Monte Carlo three years ago , but she was still Hollywood royalty . |
| 3 | ‘ You knew that there was still Darkfall activity when you sent us in ? ’ |
| 4 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 5 | Last night there was still flood water in Mostyn Street , Lloyd Street , West Shore , Kings Avenue and Trinity Avenue , Llandudno . |