Example sentences of "i [was/were] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was still trying hard not to rock the boat , not to upset either the FO or WTN , and was desperate to find a way of making uncontroversial remarks sound interesting . |
| 32 | I was still recognised and my picture ended up in People magazine ! |
| 33 | I was still wearing out the regulation Docs and the thick black jeans . |
| 34 | I was still trembling when I was handed the details of my late . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | For I was still struggling in the web you had woven , like a helpless insect wanting to escape , yet hypnotized into acquiescence and adoration by the spider 's malefic eyes and enveloping threads , wound slowly one by one round my resistless mind : |
| 37 | I was still seething at the injustice of Oliver Moreton 's attitude to me . |
| 38 | I was still frowning and my throat felt constricted . |
| 39 | There were lots of good omens and I was still inspired by the news of Jill and her campaign . |
| 40 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 41 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 42 | I was still living inside , quietly , with my own thoughts . |
| 43 | But Chaman was very protective and supportive ; it was as if I was still living with my mother . ’ |
| 44 | At the time of this story , I was still living at my friend Sherlock Holmes 's flat in Baker Street in London . |
| 45 | Yet I was still living amongst those who flourished in the world , and it was their food I used to eat . |
| 46 | I was still dazed by the extraordinary story he had told me . |
| 47 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 48 | and I was still riding on the tank |
| 49 | The book was never published in America , but I was still called to testify at the committee hearing of the US Senate which was looking into the fate of the missing US prisoners of war . |
| 50 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 51 | Late that evening I was still looking . |
| 52 | But I was still broke , like . |
| 53 | While I was still listening to " The Surrey with the Fringe on Top " and " Some Enchanted Evening " , rock and roll burst about my ears . |
| 54 | Obviously another trick question and I was still fumbling with words when Swartz said ‘ Baghetti ’ . |
| 55 | I was still fumbling the key in the driver 's door as the two Pakistanis — one of them Pointy-Beard but the other a new one on me — piled out of the Capri towards me . |
| 56 | I was still chewing on the chunk of meat Taff had given me . |
| 57 | I glanced at the faces on either side of the Colonel , but I was still fascinated by Charlie Vaughan . |
| 58 | Knowing him for the hard-hearted son of a bitch he was , I was still shaken . |
| 59 | I was still taking the heroin and now I 'm addicted to Valium as well . |
| 60 | It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released . |