Example sentences of "that i [was/were] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I was doing what I , and I alone , wanted to do , but my pursuit of academic superiority shows that I was still striving to be the person my parents wanted me to be . |
| 2 | Six months after this promotion he again called me to his office to suggest , in his gentle diplomatic way , that while the CBC was happy with my work as Production Manager , it had been observed that I was still producing almost as many shows as before . |
| 3 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 4 | But whereas before meal-times had implied some sort of positive interest in eating , their purpose now was the active avoidance of eating , the opportunity to prove to myself that I was still achieving , still winning . |
| 5 | He glanced at the paint pot and brush that I was still holding . |
| 6 | The only remarkable thing about me was the fact that I was still doing a holiday job at the age of forty . |
| 7 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 8 | I realised that I was still blaming you for what Cherith did to me . |