Example sentences of "still be [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can still be thinking about work . |
| 2 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
| 3 | Our friends will still be thinking of Christmas as chronos time — just another festival . |
| 4 | And she would still be listening to Mama 's complaining and thinking up excuses for not having the wedding just yet , which had n't been fair of her , really , because she did want to marry Charlie . |
| 5 | However , two tunes stand out : the single ‘ One Love In My Lifetime ’ , and the alluring , groovy ‘ Looking For Someone ’ , a song so lazy that it must still be living with mum in middle-age . |
| 6 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 7 | There was no-sign of the witch , but Virginia knew that she might still be coming in chase of her . |
| 8 | So wrote Llewelyn from Aber ; and between the lines they read plainly that though he might still be arguing for peace he had ceased to believe in it or greatly to desire it . |
| 9 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 10 | Vitamin deficiency Vitamin deficiency can only be properly diagnosed and treated by a doctor , but there are certain fairly obvious signs which should be noted , bearing in mind that an old person who is obese can still be suffering from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency through eating the wrong kinds of food . |
| 11 | Over the next few minutes Wickham learned that MacQuillan had not wanted to leave Barron in control anywhere , that Maureen and Barron had been and still were jockeying for position and that Maureen had enlisted Hunter-Blair 's support . |