Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [be] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much . |
| 2 | ‘ An Aching And A Longing ’ , Martyn 's previous album on his own label , has to date sold over 30,000 copies in the UK , proving that it is still possible to achieve success via the traditional workaholic route . |
| 3 | Despite this apparent endorsement , SCO wo n't say whether it has even made a decision yet , suggesting that it is still trying to picture a future for OSF/1 , given the lack of industry support for it and the shadows cast by OSF 's re-focusing . |
| 4 | As we have seen earlier , this is a Freudian term implying that they are still committed to the ‘ pleasure principle ’ . |
| 5 | Waking bright and early the next morning I reached for a copy of Delicacy as the most economical means of establishing whether I was still alive . |
| 6 | To avoid the heat of the day we went out in the mornings , waking while it was still dark . |
| 7 | The Gloucestershire rider says he does n't want to break any more bones , and wants to stop racing while he 's still giving value for money . |
| 8 | Well , we 've been wondering whether you were still with us . |
| 9 | I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five . |
| 10 | The finding of anaemia at presentation in almost half our patients is worth noting as it is still widely taught that this is an indicator of chronic rather than acute renal failure . |
| 11 | Raoul Cédras , was now adopting a neutral stance on Aristide 's restoration , stating that it was still a matter for parliament to decide . |
| 12 | Most people who have visited Pisa know that the Torre Pendente began toppling while it was still being built . |
| 13 | Referring to falling numbers in the League , she reiterated the words of our foundress , Margaret Fletcher , saying that we were still ‘ a force to be reckoned with . ’ |
| 14 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll be saying that he 's still here next . |
| 16 | The proposal to abolish corporal punishment as a judicial penalty was approved , although the minutes record the Lord Chancellor , Lord Jowitt , as saying that he was still of the opinion that it would be unwise to abolish the powers of courts to pass sentences of corporal punishment , and would have favoured the retention of the use of the birch . |
| 17 | On July 8 he was quoted in Berne as saying that he was still awaiting a response from opposition groups . |
| 18 | In any case , as Nora said , it 's exactly what they would be doing if they were still in funds ; and now , more than ever , they had to keep up their pretence . |
| 19 | Then out of the blue he got a phone call asking if he was still interested in the car as it had to be sold to make space for the family . |
| 20 | I know , look crying and it 's still sore today . |
| 21 | ‘ If you are asking whether I am still confident about the children in which I raised the concern to begin that process , the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 22 | I had a Morris 10 which went like a bird , and I thereupon conceived the wild idea of rescuing Eliot from London if the danger should seem acute — and assuming that I were still available — and settling him , however temporarily , in the village . |
| 23 | Still learning and we 're still better than them you know what I mean ? |
| 24 | With only the middle trilogy of nine planned films completed , the vein seemed to have been worked out — or perhaps Lucas was wiser than other compounders of sequels in stopping while he was still ahead . |
| 25 | While admitting that he is still ‘ feeling my way ’ , he says , ‘ I 'm glad the diocese is run the way it is and the suffragans have a proper role — you can so easily end up just confirming and licensing . ’ |
| 26 | He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died . |
| 27 | Betty , ’ said Betty over Lydia 's shoulder , which was shaking because she was still laughing . |
| 28 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 29 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 30 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |