Example sentences of "he [be] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 2 | It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority . |
| 3 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 4 | In such a situation , it is hard to believe Zarei 's claim that he is still enjoying running , but an essential part of the make-up of any top ultra runner is a fierce determination to test themselves to the limit . |
| 5 | He is still receiving treatment and with Canadian international Forrest still sidelined with a stomach muscle problem , it could mean a first team debut for Jason Winters . |
| 6 | The winner carried the famous ‘ Teaplanter ’ colours of owner Richard Russell who missed the ride as he is still recovering from a bad early season fall . |
| 7 | But I believe he is still seething about being dragged into the debate and left to look the villain of the piece . |
| 8 | He is still personalizing the universe . |
| 9 | He is still taking medication for injuries to his hand caused by the extreme cold blowing in through a hole in the fuselage during a ten-hour flight . |
| 10 | Even when the long elects to take the deposit , he is still locking in a rate of interest of 9.50 per cent . |
| 11 | What 's more , he 'll go on improving for some time because he was a late starter at 24 and he is still developing . ’ |
| 12 | He is still shivering . |
| 13 | The liquidator , Chris Ashurst of Brighton-based Neville Russell , says that he is still looking for a missing £1m of stock and is keen to hear from anyone who bought OCT machines from anywhere other than the London direct-sales team , or the liquidators ' auction held in Bristol . |
| 14 | Chen says he is still looking for new sources of finance that would enable the company to re-hire the 320 people thrown out of work by the closure , but does not hold out much hope . |
| 15 | I know the name " — is partially explained by the fact that the stage directions suggest he is still looking at Chetwyn , but we infer Anderson 's absent-mindedness from his response because any confusion over the referent of the question is unlikely , assuming that Anderson , as a participant in the Colloquium ( albeit an unenthusiastic one ) , knows that the venue is Prague . |
| 16 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 17 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 18 | He is still smarting from a put-down in the magazine City Limits which condemned his Around the World in Eighty Days as an exercise in ‘ male back-slapping imperialism ’ . |
| 19 | He is still smarting after Tuesday 's controversial umpire call , which cost him the race against Kanza , Koch 's other boat . |
| 20 | Wyllie is confident his Western Samoan wing , Va'aiga Tuigamala , will play although he is still niggled by an ankle injury received against Neath two weeks ago . |
| 21 | He is still intended to be in control of his environment . |
| 22 | When he greets me at the door , he is still wearing an apron , after ‘ helping out ’ in the attached tea shop which he runs ‘ as a bit of a hobby ’ . |
| 23 | Wainwright may play this weekend , McIntosh certainly will but London Scottish do not anticipate Sharp featuring in their first XV for the rest of the season as he is still troubled by his leg break . |
| 24 | He is still protesting his innocence . |
| 25 | He is still wanted for murder . |
| 26 | Knowing as he does that his uncle has to hold down by discipline a crew with an unusual number of criminals and malcontents , he is still disturbed by the flogging of Jesse Broad and Joyce and the masthead punishment of Thomas Fox . |
| 27 | He is still barred from many corporate towers from which he ran his empire . |
| 28 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 29 | In three years of misery at White Hart Lane , the former England Under-21 was cruelly nicknamed ‘ Booby ’ Mimms — and he is still struggling to live down the tag , despite being the Premier League 's least charitable keeper this season . |
| 30 | If Alger Hiss could betray his country for the sake of Communism — and he is still trying to establish his innocence — where else among the highest in the land might treason be found ? |