Example sentences of "but i still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . |
| 2 | It was good to see a reference in your magazine to valve amplification ( EW + WW August 1991 ) , but I still have a certain frustration that you may be able to help me with . |
| 3 | Thirty years later my volunteering instinct has come through intact but I still mistrust the American Air Force . |
| 4 | It scares me a bit , but I still hold onto her hands . |
| 5 | It ai n't too bad — you know , with the sleeping bag and the electric fire and that , but I still feel miserable . |
| 6 | That makes me feel a bit better , but I still du n no when I 'm going to see her again . |
| 7 | But I still appreciate good manners in men . |
| 8 | But I still got that feeling that we lost something . |
| 9 | It is a costly and difficult thing to aim at but I still think it is right . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember now , but I still love it and continue to be amazed every time I see it in a catalogue for it seeds itself as freely as any common plantain . |
| 11 | Not everyone is like that , but I still think your future lies off-world . |
| 12 | I would probably have liked to replace my boots and ski-jacket , but I still had n't much personal money . |
| 13 | But I still believe running is the best way to see a city and get a feel for its people and their culture . |
| 14 | The man 's face was indistinct , a tall mestizo with large , softly frowning features , but I still heard his voice clearly : ‘ Sucio . ’ |
| 15 | But I still believe The Smiths can become the most successful force in music … ’ |
| 16 | But I still retain sympathy for the misguided foreign tourists who read about its properties as a ‘ gateway to the beautiful western Highlands ’ and end up wandering in dismay down streets that make the Bronx look like Disneyland . |
| 17 | But I still miss Ann 's stone . |
| 18 | But I still have a map drawn by one of his colleagues , marking all the main sea-trout and salmon lies on Stack ; worth its weight in gold , quite irreplaceable . |
| 19 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 20 | Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child 's play , but I still could not get the hang of it . |
| 21 | But I still had doubts about giving up my job at Lloyds insurance firm , so for another year ( they were yearly contracts then ) I was allowed to keep the job , training two nights a week and playing in the reserves . |
| 22 | But I still do not see why the little houses . ’ |
| 23 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 24 | But I still needed to know about me . |
| 25 | She will have no idea what she did for me , nor for many others , but I still give thanks and a great cheer for the privilege of meeting that little grandmother from Lancashire . |
| 26 | Now I 've gone lazy but I still have enough gumption to realise the breakthrough is not going to be intellectual but spiritual . |
| 27 | It was a bit everything-but-the-kitchen-sink on sexual politics , and its switches from comedy to Myra McFadden 's chilling incest victim 's song might have been a bit startling , but I still felt pleased with it and learned ( I hope ) an awful lot from it , mainly about structure which I find hard , and how to pinch plots from people who knew how to do it . |
| 28 | But I still have a cry , sometimes , when I realize that my mother is dead — and that 's years after . |
| 29 | I am no great linguist but I still ca n't see how both Menes are represented , nor can I understand at all , how Daniel could have drawn from these three apparently simple words his full translation : ‘ God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it . |
| 30 | That too was a heady experience , but I still hankered for the farm life . |