Example sentences of "they still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after all this time , they still speak ill of him ; why it does not therefore make me , his victim , welcome among People I do not know . |
| 2 | You notice how they still turn white at the sound of his name . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , they still grew substantially more slowly than their rivals from the EEC and Japan , even in the crucial high-research-intensity sectors ( table 10.6 ) . |
| 4 | In fact they still had enough resilience to manage a try from short range by Fisher but another highly satisfactory night for the Kiwis ended with Kuiti scoring in the 79th minute and Bancroft landing his sixth goal . |
| 5 | The French were the first to object : they still had qualms about German rearmament . |
| 6 | A plumber came and installed a row of six washbasins in the cloakroom with running water , hot and cold at each , though they still had to run across the playground in all weathers to reach the outside lavatories . |
| 7 | Southampton went on to collect three more bookings , but they still had the remarkable talents of Le Tissier and Shearer , who is reported to be a summer target for United . |
| 8 | Members were discouraged from bringing along a personal caddie and if they did they still had to pay the caddie master the fee he would have received , irrespective of whether there was a caddie available or not ! |
| 9 | For example in Newcastle , Foster et al , 1976 , had shown , from an assessment of a sample of elderly people living in the community , that even though dementia sufferers received more social and health services support than other groups , nonetheless they still had greater unmet needs than other groups of dependent elderly people . |
| 10 | After a tremendous pounding from the siege guns of the royal army the following spring , they still had n't surrendered , so the Archbishop of Canterbury came to excommunicate them . ’ |
| 11 | Only the thought of the month they still had to work together contained her rage , held back the biting comments . |
| 12 | Admittedly , these could be EQ 'd , but they still had that all-out processed sound with a slight nasal quality . |
| 13 | After all , they still had certain cards to play . |
| 14 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 15 | However , they still had no luck as , here again , there was no clear signal . |
| 16 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 17 | While heterosexual feminists recognized rape as an important issue , they still had an investment in men , which to some extent meant not upsetting those men too much . |
| 18 | Lindner announced on Aussie network TV on Saturday that he 'd signed for Leeds , but Davies said they still had n't received final confirmation from the player . |
| 19 | A penalty try would not have given the World Cup to England in itself as they still had to score again . |
| 20 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 21 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 22 | This was particularly evident in space heating : coal had been the normal method of heating for British householders , but with a low coal ration now applied in order to conserve coal for industry , they still had the option of switching on electric fires . |
| 23 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 24 | These entries are reminiscent of the leases mentioned in some probate inventories , the wording of which occasionally implies that they were valued on the basis of the number of years they still had to run , calculated perhaps as a proportion of the original fines . |
| 25 | Life was different and designers , especially the owners of the houses , they still had something which does n't exist any more , social complexes about being invited to certain parties . |
| 26 | When he got a passport of his own , if they still had the sort Jarvis had by that time , he was going to write ‘ lion tattoo on back ’ under ‘ distinguishing marks ’ . |
| 27 | Well , he had never pretended that science and industry were good In themselves , of course … they still had to be used correctly . |
| 28 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 29 | For Verity Lambert and Mervyn Pinfield , though , they still had the headache of scripts littered with special props and effects , and no-one to handle them . |
| 30 | I will never understand why I went to Cookham on my first sentence — I got a YP [ young prisoner 's sentence ] and do n't know why I never went to borstal — they still had them then . |