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Example sentences of "he is still " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park .
2	He is still just rubbing his pain when he says that .
3	The Soviet leader is far from succeeding but he is still very much there , while the East German old guard is looking ever more like yesterday 's men .
4	His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact .
5	He is still there for me .
6	Toby Marten , Dead Certain 's owner , paid only 5,800 guineas for her and even after stumping up £10,000 to supplement her for yesterday 's race , he is still well over six figures in the plus in prize money , not to mention Dead Certain 's enormous intrinsic value .
7	He is still the best equipped Chancellor on the Conservative front bench ; she is still the best Thatcherite Prime Minister we have .
8	He is still in charge of military operations in the same zone , centred on Kompong Thom province .
9	GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him .
10	Some believe he is still alive ; he would be 77 .
11	He is still frail after a gall bladder operation , and his health could be an excellent reason for his departure .
12	However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts .
13	He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse .
14	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 ’ .
15	As I approached someone remarked ‘ at least he is still alive . ’
16	‘ At least he is still alive and that 's what is important . ’
17	He is still remembered with great affection within the Association and his widow , Lady Peck , continues a most welcome interest in the House .
18	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 .
19	He may act at times like a nasty prat , but he is still a legend .
20	He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake .
21	He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake .
22	The Hennessy winner , Ghofar , looks nicely treated off bottom weight , including a 4lb penalty , although technically he is still 5lb out of the handicap .
23	His opposition while in office was such that he was ousted — to run a technical publishing house — but he is still in his early fifties and may yet have a political future .
24	And he is still on his feet .
25	When he hands in his keys , he no longer owns the house ; but he is still liable for interest on the loan , until the house is sold and the loan repaid — so he wants the sale to be quick .
26	Reformers see him as protection against the Stalinist wing they still fear ( and many of them hope that maybe , deep down , he is still on their side ) .
27	He is still regularly mentioned as a possible secretary of state should the Democrats regain the White House .
28	He is still respected in the financial markets , even though voters disagree .
29	He is still barred from many corporate towers from which he ran his empire .
30	Nor does a term cease to be a leasehold because it is determinable by an event which may happen , or which is certain to happen , within the term — e.g. if A holds land for 99 years or for 999 years , ‘ if he shall so long live ’ , he is still a leaseholder , though it is nearly or quite certain that he will not outlive the term .