Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] still for a [noun sg] " 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 | But I 'd settle for you sitting still for a while . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She stood still for a moment , breathing the air , gazing round her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They stand still for a moment in their original positions . ) |
| 11 | They sat still for a second , then Evans stood up and pushed his chair back and the others followed . |
| 12 | He lay still for a while , steadying himself , waiting for explanations to arrange themselves in his head . |
| 13 | He sat still for a while , steadying himself , waiting for explanations to arrange themselves in his head . |
| 14 | He stood still for a moment breathing deeply . |