Example sentences of "were still [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most second-year students had not returned yet ; they were still struggling back from cycling holidays in Iran . |
| 2 | The sun was low on the horizon now and the birds were still flying in from ‘ pre-roost assembly points ’ . |
| 3 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 4 | Their eyelashes were still built up with hot black , mouth open to concentrate . |
| 5 | There were still bears around in Gourstave 's time : brown bears in the Alps , reddish bears in Savoy . |
| 6 | By 1986 , when the repression was more selective in character , urban retention levels were much higher , though 10 per cent or more of students were still dropping out in first , fifth and sixth grades . |
| 7 | For instance , on the day we moved , while the men were still lurching around with their crates and cardboard boxes , Tod slipped out into the garden-the garden on which he had worked for so many years . |
| 8 | Contraceptives in Britain were still kept out of sight , even male ones , and had to be purchased rather furtively , like guilty secrets . |
| 9 | For long periods in the past , however , towns and cities did not exist , and yet many , if not most , of the functions which major urban centres fulfil today were still carried out in the landscape . |
| 10 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 11 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 12 | Great shards of glass were still lying around as a net curtain flapped inside the shattered frame of the blue front door of number 52 . |
| 13 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |
| 14 | From all directions people were still pouring out of the maze of the Old City and heading towards one of the three gates of the Jama Masjid — three seething crocodiles of humanity heading towards the same walled courtyard . |
| 15 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 16 | Summerchild would have mentioned it by way of defending Northumberland Avenue , perhaps while they were still walking back along Great Scotland Yard . |
| 17 | His own companions were still coming out of the entrance burrow one by one and there was a good deal of scrabbling and shuffling . |
| 18 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 19 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 20 | Talks were still going on between Knighton and his stockbrokers Laing & Cruickshank last night to prepare an offer document before tonight 's midnight deadline . |
| 21 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 22 | What did he think you were still going out with him like or what ? |