Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [noun] [was/were] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp were still vacillating over whether or not an announcement of the COSI Common Open Systems Interface initiative would be forthcoming on March 17 at UniForum in San Francisco . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM Corp were still vacillating over whether or not an announcement of the COSI Common Open Systems Interface initiative would be forthcoming on March 17th at UniForum in San Francisco ( UX No 424 , 425 ) . |
| 3 | The first of the other boys arrived and Mr Gillis was still hunched over his book . |
| 4 | When we got back to our door Mrs Jonesy and Mrs Phipps were still loitering , all ears , so Frankie deliberately poured some of the icy water on Mrs Jonesy 's feet . |
| 5 | When we arrived at Granny 's house Mrs Phipps and Mrs Taylor were still standing outside gossiping with the neighbours . |
| 6 | Yeo rubbed the back of his neck irritably , and reached for his coffee , downing two cups while McLeish and Catherine Crane were still passing each other milk and sugar . |
| 7 | Other old shipmates like Phil Andrews , Eddie Clarke and Ron Giles were still crewing but others like Des Ferret , Vic Roberts and Bob Wellock were disappearing up the promotion ladder . |
| 8 | In my youth I could read Jules Verne and H. G. Wells who took their hero explorers to the moon and to the depths of the ocean , but the imaginary worlds of Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle were still located here on earth in unmapped corners of Africa and South America . |
| 9 | And Austen Chamberlain was still telling Baldwin that the Conservative position would only be restored if he bestirred himself and put a less negative spirit in his speeches . |
| 10 | Turakina and Mei Ling were still examining the sheet , and Kadan and Irina were playing with the twins beside the door . |
| 11 | Yesterday Frank and Dorothy Lewis were still seething following the court case , which arose from an incident at Ilkeston , in Derbyshire . |
| 12 | Scotland had its own Royal Commission established in the same year ; in Wales consultations had already begun leading to the appointment of a working party ( Wood 1976 : 119 ; Alexander 1928b:29 ) ; and Northern Ireland was still governed in these matters from Stormont . |