Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] was still " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 2 | Along the inland , mostly mountainous boundary , despite the efforts of the joint delimitation commission , much remained to be clarified and was still causing difficulties in 1980 . |
| 3 | He sat in shamefaced silence while Paul Lexington explained to the company what was going to be done and was still silent , but attentive , while Wallas Ward , who had encountered the deaf-aid on a previous production , demonstrated the apparatus . |
| 4 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 5 | But this — was as though Fox had died and was still dying , and had enjoyed her own kill … . |
| 6 | A new R. A. F. camp , to which I was duly sent , had just been opened and was still partly empty when one day a new batch of prisoners was announced . |
| 7 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 8 | Whatever else you might say about him , he believed in things and he did what he thought was proper , so it was only right that he 'd been spared and was still out there in the world , somewhere . |
| 9 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 10 | Like Dr Neil , J.D. thought how much she had changed and was still changing . |