Example sentences of "was still [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restlessness showed in her face , she realised despondently , looking at her own pale-faced reflection the following morning , and remembering that her entire collection of cosmetics was still stowed in the stranded car . |
| 2 | Writing was a sign of the Fall , it was a kind of punishment ; Dolle was still living in the Garden of Eden or at least the Sugar Bar . |
| 3 | In 1800 Thomas was still living in the house on the north-west side of Fountain Lane , then owned by Mrs. Hellier . |
| 4 | Montaine was still living in the attic at the time . |
| 5 | Billy was still slouched in the corner with his left leg stretched across the seat and his right arm around Mary 's neck . |
| 6 | Barry was still locked in the bucket . |
| 7 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 8 | Among those detained in a wave of arrests , according to reports on Nov. 13 , were three former ministers in the Mahdi government [ see p. 36418 ] , Salah Abd al-Salam al-Khalifa , Omar Nour el-Daim and Bakri Ahmed Adil , all of them members of the Umma party whose fundamentalist wing was still represented in the Bashir regime . |
| 9 | Yet its supporters could not fail to realize the possibility of attracting a section of the Liberal Party , which was still represented in the official Party . |
| 10 | Bruce was still lost in the red mists of temper seven minutes later when Simpson , City 's impressive recruit from Swindon , released White with a splendid pass — and Bruce tracked him almost to the deadball line before scything him down . |
| 11 | At the start of the Queen 's reign this feature of the London season was still formalized in the presentation of debutantes at Buckingham Palace which was followed by a series of coming-out balls . |
| 12 | For I was still struggling in the web you had woven , like a helpless insect wanting to escape , yet hypnotized into acquiescence and adoration by the spider 's malefic eyes and enveloping threads , wound slowly one by one round my resistless mind : |
| 13 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |
| 14 | Jack was still absorbed in the instructions . |
| 15 | The numerical details of the results may not be generally applicable , since the flow was still developing in the downstream direction at the observing station ( and the Reynolds number may not have been high enough for Ri to be the only parameter ) ; but the results should indicate well the general trends . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 17 | ( Britain was still engaged in the war in South Africa . ) |
| 18 | She was still looking in the mirror making sure there were no other tell-tale signs of the evening 's activities when the living-room door was thrown open and her mother , looking very stern , appeared . |
| 19 | After their special meeting , the ANC then released a statement saying the tour was still hanging in the balance ad pointed the blame squarely at Louis Luyt . |
| 20 | The newt was still squirming in the tall glass of water . |
| 21 | That thinking was still cast in the mould of a hundred years before ; the methods of conducting war at sea were still those of blockade , commerce-destroying and protection , and still depended ultimately on the ability to win a pitched gun-battle with the enemy fleet . |
| 22 | She was still pacing in the sala when Felipe came back . |
| 23 | It also stated that the National Elections Jury ( NEJ ) was still immersed in the process of reviewing the electoral register in order to guarantee a clean vote . |
| 24 | His appointment to the staff of the Borodin mission to the Kuomintang in 1924 brought him into contact with hundreds of young Vietnamese for whom Canton was the centre of Chinese nationalism ; and communism which , at this time , was still included in the Kuomintang . |
| 25 | McGowan was still sitting in the back , Creed had moved into the front . |
| 26 | He was still sitting in the same chair , staring into space like a man in a trance . |
| 27 | Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face . |
| 28 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 29 | Ralph was still waiting in the doorway . |
| 30 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |