Example sentences of "i [modal v] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I may still have a black dog in me , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 3 | There is nothing I can do about that for he harms himself , but I must still behave like a dutiful son and observe a son 's obligations . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There is one soul I must still take and give to my Masters . ’ |
| 5 | Flow on this stretch is usually sluggish but today , with the extra water , the flow is much quicker but I should still be able to use a waggler . |
| 6 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 7 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If I keep out of the chairman 's way , I should still be in charge for Wednesday 's Capital League match against Reading . ’ |
| 9 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 10 | If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have . |
| 11 | ‘ When I 've seen you safely on the train , I should still have time enough to get to the auction . ’ |
| 12 | Even if I did not like you very much , I should still want you to be manageress of the Maison de Verveine in London . |
| 13 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 14 | He said this would be all right since on my return I should still be within the age limit for joining the Political Service . |
| 15 | If I were still at Bewick , I should still have my vision of myself quite obliterated by your violent view of how I should be , but I am free now and you can not put the chains back on , it is too late , I am growing up . ’ |
| 16 | Innocent eyes of the boy I should still be , |
| 17 | yeah , but I should still get |
| 18 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 19 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
| 20 | I stared ahead , I might still catch |
| 21 | United visit Villa Park , and Atkinson wistfully linked the past with the present when he said : ‘ If I 'd had Dean Saunders at United , we would have won the Championship and I might still be manager of Manchester United . ’ |
| 22 | For though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely , that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal … |
| 23 | The closest he comes to it is , I think , in the passage quoted earlier in which he says that ‘ though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal ’ . |
| 24 | Secretly , I might still yearn for a bumper-sized twelve-inch member . |
| 25 | I might still get called one , but it would never hurt again . |
| 26 | And then thought : I might still have a title . |
| 27 | I might still have the odd tin of some oval golden tablets , big as gooseberries , which we used to give them for worms . |
| 28 | Better than me — though I might still teach him a thing or two — but the farm is a big responsibility for any young man , especially one with a London background . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I think the first clue I had that I might still be on the team was when your mum pitched up to inspect the body . ’ |
| 30 | I might still have held off , And then you would have tarried . |