Example sentences of "[modal v] still [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you use milk it might not go completely solid but you should still manage to get some lumps of frozen milk . |
| 2 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 3 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 4 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 5 | The very idea of being ‘ off the record ’ was nonsense , since the room was almost certainly wired , but George should still have stuck to protocol and said something polite like Oh yes , of course . |
| 6 | However , if a taxpayer is preparing to carry out IHT planning by giving property to a trust then he should still consider setting up an overseas trust rather than a UK trust . |
| 7 | However , if you feel repulsed by the physical changes caused by the patient 's illness , you should still try to behave gently and affectionately towards him . |
| 8 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 9 | Metaphysics — the white mythology which reassembles and reflects the culture of the West : the white man takes his own mythology , Indo-European mythology , his own logos , that is , the mythos of his idiom , for the universal form of that he must still wish to call Reason . |
| 10 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 11 | Their place in a group dominated by the Catholics no doubt reflected the regent 's desire for consent from Catholic and protestant alike ; and as yet she saw little reason to fear the Protestants , who must still have seemed to her far less of a threat than the strong Huguenot party in France . |
| 12 | Of course , we reinsured for a cut of the premiums , but we 'll still stand to lose well over sixteen million dollars . |
| 13 | No , you 'll still get sacked . |
| 14 | You 'll still have to join it at the back |
| 15 | Erm but to get into the social work department she 'll still have to do the that that |
| 16 | We 'll still have to do all round the doors , round the you know . |
| 17 | You 'll still have to do a few miles ? |
| 18 | You 'll still have to watch them like hawks — but you can make life easier by taking these room-by-room steps . |
| 19 | What you 'll have to do in here right , because E and F you 'll still have to have E and F alright ? |
| 20 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 21 | If you go to America you 'll still have to depend on someone for a living . ’ |
| 22 | You 'll still have to convince them all right ? |
| 23 | But , whether it 's a true story or not , you 'll still enjoy reading it . |
| 24 | All the discussion in the world about register and appropriateness in English might still fail to reveal crucial aspects of Panjabi , Gujarati or even German , and may even cloud the issue . |
| 25 | On the other matter , however , inciting unrest in the city which had already led to trouble between Moslem and Copt and might still lead to massacre , Andrus was , if not the prime mover , then definitely a prime mover , and for that he must be made to pay . |
| 26 | That gave Standard a stranglehold on the oil market which it might still enjoy had not America 's trustbusters split the company up . |
| 27 | I might still get called one , but it would never hurt again . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for the fact that her stomach chose that precise moment to rumble loudly she might still have argued . |
| 29 | All might still have gone well . |
| 30 | He might still have loved her and been capable of persuasion . |