Example sentences of "i [was/were] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 2 | Er I was still slobbing around in my dressing-gown and you know yesterday 's clothes and so I I I thought I 'd better get up and do stuff . |
| 3 | Or , as one of my students once put it to me , ironically , when I was still preaching this gospel , ‘ I know , Sir , it was racism what dun n it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was still rising , drawn upwards . |
| 6 | I had to hold the door open for a woman with a pram , and then the whole population of Chetwynd poured out in a body , and I was still holding it . |
| 7 | He glanced at the paint pot and brush that I was still holding . |
| 8 | Then suddenly he seemed to sag back into his seat , his hand reaching slowly for the pen I was still holding out to him . |
| 9 | I was still holding her back from the window , and wondering what to do next , when Mr Edgar entered . |
| 10 | Suddenly she giggled and I realised I was still holding her fingers . |
| 11 | I was still weeping with fright when Uncle Bill put me to bed . |
| 12 | I was still hoping to return to England one day . |
| 13 | I was still debating between taking you away from him , waiting for it to end anyway , or doing nothing at all — the last because I knew that if your reaction to me was purely physical , I could have you … but probably damage you emotionally . ’ |
| 14 | I got out , the kids did n't go in a home , and I was still using . |
| 15 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 16 | I was still obeying my father when the war came , so it was Hitler who really promoted my release . |
| 17 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 18 | Well they 'd gone off and before Anthea had gone and I was still fiddling about getting the windows clean . |
| 19 | I was still learning to drive . |
| 20 | Later , I was still disturbed by Mick 's comments , but it was Sunday and self-pity was always sweeter then . |
| 21 | They had n't invented electronics when I was Still had one ? |
| 22 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I was still gibbering . |
| 27 | And I was still hanging there . |
| 28 | I was still trying to work this girl out . |
| 29 | I was still trying to work out what that meant as she flurried off up to her bobble hat in snow . |
| 30 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |