Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] still [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 2 | I fancy sometimes that I can still smell stale tobacco-smoke in here , the place is impregnated with it . |
| 3 | No I 'm just thinking about erm next Tuesday , I 'm supposed to working , it turns out but I shall try and work it so that I can still come shopping with you , but I shall have to leave |
| 4 | It meant that I could still do what I regard as a worthwhile job . |
| 5 | It is a work that I could still come back to , perhaps . |
| 6 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 7 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 8 | ‘ I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister made it clear , however , that she would still control the direction of policy . |
| 10 | He had not anticipated that she would still retain sufficient will-power to deny him when he had asked his empty , ritual question . |
| 11 | It had never seemed to occur to anyone else that she might still do so , and part of her self-loathing was due to the fact that she did n't know . |
| 12 | This it is , but the miracle is not that Patricia Routledge can make the old weep with ‘ Roses of Picardy ’ , but that she can still move the young with it . |
| 13 | Right , and so that she can still move |
| 14 | He had been warning Matilda , reminding her that she could still threaten Edmund 's safety to ensure Isabel 's obedience . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
| 17 | Patrick 's mother had died twenty years before in the County Donegal , trying to prove that she could still climb to the top of a mountain called Muckish . |
| 18 | He had to admit that she could still ride a lot better than he could . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 21 | no we 'll check that you can still go with them , before Philip , cos Phil and Liz would appreciate an early warning |
| 22 | You have exercised and maintained or even increased your metabolic rate so that you can still eat reasonable , good-sized meals and not add body fat . |
| 23 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Firstly , plug all the draughts with strips of foam draught excluder , but make sure that you can still open the windows properly . |
| 26 | Ray Floyd , Tom Kite and Hale Irwin have shown that you can still win the big titles even when you are over 40 . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | But they they 'll tell you that you can still see where the house was because there 's a runcho grows there . |
| 29 | It is amazing that you can still read calculations like my haemoglobin calculation , used as though they constituted arguments against Darwin 's theory . |
| 30 | The answer is that you can still proceed . |