Example sentences of "were still [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the headset that he wore for the flight , his ears were still ringing when he climbed down from the helicopter . |
| 2 | At that time , school rolls were still rising and the challenge was to ensure enough accommodation . |
| 3 | The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars . |
| 4 | Her legs were still trembling but she was pulling herself together as quickly as she could and she had to admit that his quiet actions helped . |
| 5 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 6 | While skirts were still rustling and prayer-books being closed , he shouted : " Cholera ! " |
| 7 | And though Walker was able to call upon the versatility of substitute Rob Newman , City were still reorganising when Ipswich snatched the lead six minutes into the second half . |
| 8 | Other old shipmates like Phil Andrews , Eddie Clarke and Ron Giles were still crewing but others like Des Ferret , Vic Roberts and Bob Wellock were disappearing up the promotion ladder . |
| 9 | And er they were still whistling and calling , so I went up on to the top of the bank and they it was this plantation that fell down in the warren and caught fire . |
| 10 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 11 | Sohail and Ramiz made 16 untroubled , and that evening Akram expressed fresh concern that some were still complaining that he and Waqar must be ‘ doctoring ’ the ball . |
| 12 | However , it is noteworthy that even as late as the nineteenth century , the courts were still discussing whether , in the case of a young girl , there was penetration sufficient to constitute rape where the hymen remained intact . |
| 13 | Well , they came by in their lorry when we 'd only just started you see , of course great ’ ooh hahhhh ’ with their when we 're treading in , and erm trouble was , we were still doing when the came along and they yelled out ’ you prisoner , we free ! ’ |
| 14 | In the last reports they were able to compile , in April 1940 , Sopade observers were still noting that ‘ many prefer to keep Hitler than to envisage what could come after a defeat ’ , that fear of chaos and revolution still predominated among the bourgeoisie , but that ‘ there is no doubt that up to now the majority of the people is still convinced of Germany 's victory ’ . |
| 15 | At the beginning of the twentieth century , Poor Law administrators were still noting that older women seemed more able than older men to survive without any apparent source of income , because of the domestic services which they could perform ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | The Cliftonville players and fans were still celebrating when Irvine spotted the raised flag of a linesman and cut their party short . |
| 17 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 18 | she said cos she were talking , she knew tape were still running and she were pretending to say that she did n't say I could do it but she did |
| 19 | In the wooden fortress they were still feasting when the princess 's army came in sight . |
| 20 | The fireworks were still exploding when the procession came to an end over in hour later . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They were still talking when Andrée was there . |
| 23 | Some strata of the urban population were still apportioning and collecting their own tax dues in Nicholas I 's reign . |
| 24 | Well they were still working when we left . |
| 25 | Steve and the others were still working and I began getting the meal ready . |
| 26 | Douglas and Ramsay drove through the throng , to where the Regent and Leslie were still conferring as to what to do now . |
| 27 | We were still laughing when we took more food out to the others . |
| 28 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 29 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 30 | We burst out giggling at the sight of his bare bottom and we were still tittering when the door burst open and Mrs Taylor entered . |