Example sentences of "[noun pl] i still " in BNC.

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1 In the early months I still had my natural aversion to overcome , before I understood the fundamental strangeness of the process of fruition .
2 There are lots of mountains I still want to climb , ’ Ms Stephens said , just hours after arriving back in Britain .
3 There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun .
4 But after all these years I still remember the Krooms .
5 After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game .
6 ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’
7 This is the way I have learned to use my machine and although there are one or two things I still do n't quite understand , I feel that with a bit of determination and the help of your articles I am getting there .
8 Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’
9 I will never return to Treasure Island , but in my worst dreams I still hear the sharp , high scream of Captain Flint the parrot : ‘ Pieces of eight !
10 We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today .
11 But I know it will go away and when I see friends with babies I still think ‘ Oh , I want one now ! ’ ’
12 Mr Jones , of the Manor Farm , had locked the hen-houses for the night , I read , but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes I still do n't know what pop-holes are .
13 And some of the others I still have to look at .
14 In the evenings I still wait there for her , and track her as she walks to school , with my ears humming .
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