Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [modal v] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it must be stressed that you must still practise the manoeuvre if you are to stand any chance of success in an emergency situation . |
| 2 | And erm Maisy and Freda say that they would still like a few bottles and that for the stall please . |
| 3 | Some of the country 's top wheelchair tennis players have been proving that they can still serve up top-class sporting action . |
| 4 | One of the most famous sportsmen in the world , Muhammad Ali , is proving that he can still pull the crowds . |
| 5 | ‘ I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains . |
| 6 | Maria hesitated fleetingly , realising that he must still believe there had been something between her and Florian six years ago . |
| 7 | But being watch 'd that it may still go right ! |
| 8 | But we 've just said that he should still have been able to work out that his space was curved , even though he could n't see it . |
| 9 | The selectors , though , clearly consider that they could still have need of the towering mass of Dooley 's physical presence . |
| 10 | You ca n't believe that they can still say it , having had this conversation six hundred times . |
| 11 | At least now , today , she could ease his suffering , help him forget Madeleine for a little while , make him see that he could still find happiness of a kind without her . |
| 12 | He had not anticipated that she would still retain sufficient will-power to deny him when he had asked his empty , ritual question . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 14 | Ray Floyd , Tom Kite and Hale Irwin have shown that you can still win the big titles even when you are over 40 . |
| 15 | Remember that you can still win a fabulous prize for the most sponsorship money collected per team and per person — so collect your money and send it in ! |
| 16 | Our existing residents will continue to get social security funding for their rent and we assume that we will still get grants from the health authority and social services for our running costs . |
| 17 | Lord Rosebery responded quickly by saying that he would still sell to the nation , but was increasing the price from £2 to £3 million for the house and contents . |
| 18 | First , it ensures that you can still utilise the database without retrieving BLOBs and suffer no loss of speed in your application because of the presence of BLOBs within records . |
| 19 | If authoritarian welfare states fulfilled these atavistic needs in the Neolithic , there is every reason to believe that they could still do so today ; and certainly there is much evidence to show that modern police states , far from merely fulfilling some of the same psychological functions , even mimic their Neolithic forerunners in the details of their ritual and symbolism , and certainly seem to evolve their own thorough-going political religions . |
| 20 | It meant that I could still do what I regard as a worthwhile job . |
| 21 | Wilson felt that he could still meet the current deficit target for 1989-90 of Can . |
| 22 | Newspapers printed a photograph of a letter to a flood-control committee bearing Mr Li 's signature , so it was assumed that he could still put pen to paper . |
| 23 | Miss Wharton , briefly closing her eyes as she trudged through the mush of fallen leaves , thought that she could still scent , above the smell of sluggish water and damp earth , a trace of the heady elderberry flowers of June . |
| 24 | Hardly any Iraqi combat aircraft have been destroyed , which means that they may still try to intervene in the land battle , or to hit harder than Scud missiles can at Israel and Saudi Arabia . |
| 25 | This means that we can still operate as an independent entity with our own , in some cases , unique courses and programmes , but we have the backing of a highly reputable university . |
| 26 | I think that we must still look cautiously at adoption without consent . |
| 27 | For example Mrs Snell , who was looking after her husband said that she could still manage to look after him at home ; she was doing a little more for him than last year because he was physically frailer and more uncooperative , but she was getting the right amount of help and was quite satisfied . |
| 28 | Subsequently , however , the CNGSB announced on Oct. 22 that it intended to launch " a new and fierce terrorist campaign in the country " , but nevertheless qualified this by repeating that it would still support moves by " political parties , the working class , trade unions and everyone else " to find a political solution . |
| 29 | no we 'll check that you can still go with them , before Philip , cos Phil and Liz would appreciate an early warning |
| 30 | He had to admit that she could still ride a lot better than he could . |