Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he [be] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
| 2 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 3 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 4 | Vic Furlong : ‘ He was always a bit of a dreamer in that I 'd give him a job to do , come back in about an hour and he was still chatting , the job unfinished , so he had to go . |
| 5 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 6 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
| 7 | Dairy Crest are suing Mr Rollings for damages , claiming he canvassed for custom while he was still working for them . |
| 8 | The change was not his fault , although he was guilty of the self-deception or he was still talking of ‘ the ploughman ‘ with his team on the world 's rim … ’ ’ . |
| 9 | It was Caspar 's shed and he was still barking . |
| 10 | In such a situation , it is hard to believe Zarei 's claim that he is still enjoying running , but an essential part of the make-up of any top ultra runner is a fierce determination to test themselves to the limit . |
| 11 | Amazingly , Gazza can remember nothing about one of the great goals of his career because he was still suffering the debilitating effects of flu . |
| 12 | Wainwright may play this weekend , McIntosh certainly will but London Scottish do not anticipate Sharp featuring in their first XV for the rest of the season as he is still troubled by his leg break . |
| 13 | The winner carried the famous ‘ Teaplanter ’ colours of owner Richard Russell who missed the ride as he is still recovering from a bad early season fall . |
| 14 | In the case of pupils who are totally blind , or have little guiding sight , an orderly and reasonably predictable environment can help the pupil when he is still gaining confidence in independent mobility , but experience in purposeful movement and appropriate mobility training are even more essential . |
| 15 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 16 | It was not as easy as that because , when he put his head forward , he saw in the mirror that he was still lifting his chest and arching his back . |
| 17 | I was half-way down the road and he was still roaring . |
| 18 | So I tried the bottle and he was still vomiting all the time . |
| 19 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 20 | They have reservations concerning their middle jumper , Tony Copsley , aside from the fact that he is still labelled , as exemplified by that marvellously unfortunate tattoo on his behind , ‘ Made in England . ’ |
| 21 | For a year now he 's been trying to avoid packaged and drilled TV appearances , and enduring repetitive questions from bemused Europeans about sampling or acid house But he 's still managed to have some fun . |
| 22 | The Henley MP could n't give a speech because he 's still recovering from a heart attack . |