Example sentences of "[was/were] still [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman pointed out that the soldier returned at one point when Mrs. X and her husband were still at the base . |
| 2 | It was not yet ten o'clock , so presumably Dominic and Lee were still at The Crown . |
| 3 | Firefighters were still at the Auto Sleepers factory today investigating the cause of the fire which destroyed a whole production line and a number of caravans . |
| 4 | They were still at the window when Timothy Gedge appeared a few minutes later . |
| 5 | Last night Carol 's distraught parents , from Southport , Merseyside , were still at the newly-weds ' home in Los Angeles . |
| 6 | He said a clear pathway to sustainable development had been mapped out but they were still at the start of the journey . |
| 7 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 8 | As a result , the exchange 's members were forced to close out their positions while voters were still at the polling booths . |
| 9 | A quick glance into the dining-room showed he was no longer there , but to her surprise she saw that Doreen and Matt were still at the table . |
| 10 | David and Greg were still at the front of the plane , so , beckoning to the white-haired man , she said , ‘ Would you please come here and keep up pressure on this man 's leg ? |
| 11 | It is certainly true that some of the processes associated with standardization ( on which see Haugen , 1972 ; Leith , 1980 ; J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) were well under way around 1600 ( elaboration of function , use of a supra-regional writing system ) , but it looks as if some of them were still at the stage of being localized developments associated with the establishment of consensus on local norms , and this applies particularly to pronunciation , which is the level of language that is least uniform . |
| 12 | Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew . |
| 13 | At this stage the hand and gun mechanisms were still on a vertical , rather than horizontal , plane , but in most other respects it was the Dalek . |
| 14 | But I could n't — when I arrived there was no door , the boards were still on the windows , there was no electricity and no cooking facilities , only cold black floors and dog shit . |
| 15 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 16 | More were still on the floor asleep , part-drunken no doubt , for the long tables were littered with wine-flagons and beakers and broken meats . |
| 17 | Her jeans were still on the floor , and last night 's underwear , but she 'd taken her make-up out of the bathroom cabinet and her toothbrush from the tumbler by the sink . |
| 18 | The other two hijackers were still on the floor , and Carl saw the Captain move in the cabin behind the bearded man . |
| 19 | Now he and John were still on the wall and , caught by light , would be fully in view from the gallery . |
| 20 | Some of them were still on the streets . |
| 21 | ‘ Honestly , Julie , Lady Wyndham behaves as though Queen Victoria were still on the throne . |
| 22 | Their empty glasses were still on the coffee-table , reminding her of the night before . |
| 23 | The interviews were carried out some time after the abuse had been established , so that while all had been on the child abuse register only half were still on the register when interviewed . |
| 24 | One asked why directors responsible for the ISC acquisition were still on the board . |
| 25 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 26 | Brown and his team were still on the road south . |
| 27 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 28 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |
| 29 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 30 | The three pirates who were still on the island did not trouble us . |