Example sentences of "be still [verb] [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 2 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 3 | I was still trembling when I was handed the details of my late . |
| 4 | I was still trembling when I reached the barn and hardly said a word as Mr Bailes led me back across the road to the farm . |
| 5 | The tank was still covered as I assumed the eggs to be light sensitive . |
| 6 | She was still sitting where I left her ; that was a good sign . |
| 7 | I was still crying when I put on my boots and picked up my kitbag ; and after a few desperate embraces I burst out into the stars and the snow — the constellations of snow , the blizzard of stars . |
| 8 | Aye it was sti , yes it was still going when I came up here . |