Example sentences of "but [pron] still [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique produced a great deal of interesting material , but I still felt a need to achieve more insight into the language behaviour of my informants — especially outside school . |
| 2 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But I still have a cry , sometimes , when I realize that my mother is dead — and that 's years after . |
| 5 | Sometimes these sophisticated nine-year-olds really do seem to have the bug but I still feel a bit uncomfortable encouraging them because they are so young . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd offer to help , ’ she said apologetically , ‘ but I still feel a bit wobbly . ’ |
| 7 | Then you go over the seat and hang off the inside , but you still keep a lot of weight on that outside peg and you put on some more if the tyre starts really sliding . ’ |
| 8 | But you still have a journey to make and it will be a terrible journey . |
| 9 | " But you still have a coach here , " Dr. Favor said . |
| 10 | Make no mistake , the odds are stacked against you , but you still have a chance if you play your cards right . |
| 11 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 12 | Chorus numbers were sung in full , and the Hoflin girl 's little solo in Act Two was performed from beginning to end , but Ingrid , who was singing Lisa — not such a heavy role , but she still had a couple of solos — was resting her voice again , and the rest just walked and hummed their roles . |
| 13 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 14 | Our pit was n't going to be big , but we still used a pier as a precautionary measure . |
| 15 | But we still did a lot of sport and work on the assault course , which was a set of twenty-four gut-wrenching obstacles set on the edge of the camp . |
| 16 | We turned the tables in the FA Cup , but we still have a score to settle . |
| 17 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 18 | They fitted but they still looked a bit baggy . |
| 19 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 20 | Polly had total faith in Nathan 's seamanship , but they still had a lot of ocean to cross , and the radio was a source of vital information regarding sea and weather conditions . |
| 21 | But they still had a lot of ground to make up . |
| 22 | But they still have a conscience and they challenge that they . |
| 23 | But they still have a lot to learn in terms of communications , hotels , airports , the movement of people and the sensitivity to visiting teams ’ , he said . |
| 24 | But they still have a side boasting 11 full internationals . |
| 25 | His face was different , almost human , but he still had a shark 's mouth . |
| 26 | He eats a wide range of solid foods , but he still likes a breastfeed last thing at night . |
| 27 | Mr Major won the day but he still has a problem . |
| 28 | This is a great advance over the rate achieved by earlier machines , but it still allows a routine lookahead of only four moves . |
| 29 | All right , Clare never admitted it and I ca n't prove it , but it still seems a betting certainty . ’ |
| 30 | In this condition its mobility is severely hampered , but it still has a chance of survival if its environment is benign . |