Example sentences of "[pers pn] still [verb] their " in BNC.
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1 | I still remember their names : Ixe 's , Fogels , Ettingers , Callendars . |
2 | There were lanner falcons and peregrines in the zoo , I remember , and I still find their perfect manoeuvrability in the air almost unbelievable . |
3 | so we did n't open yours , and when you left , I thought oh no , they 're gon na think we 're really rude , because we still got their bottle of wine , and we did n't drink it . |
4 | Even though they were poor they still had their pride . |
5 | But even though the newest treatments are gentle on hair , they still take their toll . |
6 | That way they still get their moral . ’ |
7 | Because er I mean you , they still get their maternity leave |
8 | It was n't to do with the women , they still resembled their ancestors well enough . |
9 | They still wore their seaboots , but brought their shoregoing shoes with them in an oilskin bag . |
10 | That was what the men on the next bench were doing ; they still wore their overcoats , rough shabby clothes bundled round them , like rolls of carpet stacked and tied with twine . |
11 | The reason for thinking that chloroplasts have this origin is that they still retain their own DNA and their own protein-synthesizing machinery . |
12 | They still retain their stronghold in southwest Scotland and northern England today . |
13 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
14 | If the sale is abandoned , they still collect their fee , and their responsibility ends at once . |
15 | They still do their own winding but they d they do n't do their own dyeing |
16 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
17 | Here , though it is not true that they have no food , for they still have their daily supplies of the ‘ worthless ’ manna , they remain without water , and , manna or no manna , death would seem to stare them in the face . |
18 | But even if letters are available for research ( perhaps a secret cache is discovered in an old house ) , they still have their limitations . |
19 | They do n't have the advantage in a charge that the lancers have , but on the other hand they still have their +2 strength bonus in the succeeding rounds of combat . |
20 | They still have their problems out there . ’ |
21 | If they still owe their local authority money , they must pay it : they will not be let off the hook . |
22 | They still want their identities to remain publicly unannounced . |
23 | ‘ But they still drop their things all over the house . |
24 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |
25 | One or two pigments did stain the fibres somewhat , but they still held their translucence , and I suppose that a wash in warm soapy water would bring back the whiteness . |
26 | He still defends their use on the grounds that ‘ For selfish reasons a prison administrator needs to know as much as he can about each prisoner , especially incoming prisoners . ’ |