Example sentences of "were still [verb] [adv prt] " 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 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |
| 3 | The sun was low on the horizon now and the birds were still flying in from ‘ pre-roost assembly points ’ . |
| 4 | They were still flying in . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Waders were still passing through : spotted redshank , whimbrel , bar-tailed godwit … |
| 7 | Their eyelashes were still built up with hot black , mouth open to concentrate . |
| 8 | There were still bears around in Gourstave 's time : brown bears in the Alps , reddish bears in Savoy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Shop windows were still frosted over and dustbins lay unemptied in the icy streets . |
| 11 | The German barrage seemed to be slackening off a bit , though the Allied guns were still firing over our positions , their shells shaking the trees as they headed toward the German trenches with a loud swish as they passed overhead . |
| 12 | Although it was late , the Loulou boys were still hopping about . |
| 13 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |
| 14 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 15 | There the loading was still underway and the women were still hanging about . |
| 16 | Last night , Gen Noriega 's armed militia were still setting up roadblocks in the city 's main financial district , while the new civilian government , headed by Mr Guillermo Endara , was kept under guard by the US military , which said it was too risky for it to appear in public . |
| 17 | Back at the other end , those waves of Lincoln attacks were still crashing in . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Granny 's neighbours were still looking on , watching for further developments , because they all knew Mum 's temper . |
| 20 | The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last , and were still bringing in letters . |
| 21 | Do n't think she 'eard , for she were still cryin' out fit to deafen us , beggin' your pardon , m'lord . " |
| 22 | You were still kept on until he was found . |
| 23 | Contraceptives in Britain were still kept out of sight , even male ones , and had to be purchased rather furtively , like guilty secrets . |
| 24 | However , as we went to press they were still sorting out what stays and what goes . |
| 25 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
| 26 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 27 | About a dozen were still milling around , hurling themselves at the fur shop window , almost certainly bullet proof , the rest were arguing or wrestling with about ten policemen who were too busy to tell us to move on even when the lights changed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Johannsen and the DK were still clambering up the long diagonal slope to her left , almost level with her now . |
| 30 | Now began the real fight for the story , the exclusive , the Kiss ‘ n ’ Tell , which was mostly played out long-range from London , where the editors snarled and the home-side pack were still running around looking for defence ministers or Gorbachev or Cabinet luminaries . |