Example sentences of "[pers pn] still [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've no love for the SDLP either but I still went and spoke to them too . |
| 2 | I still re-read and enjoy Beyond a Boundary , finding something new , often appreciating a passage that had passed my by earlier . |
| 3 | I still hated and feared the thought of the wild animal inside me , and I had not forgotten the desperate dangers of the day before . |
| 4 | I still sing and play some of the material that my father used all those years ago . |
| 5 | I still have and use some of these old favourites with all the hairs and bristles bent , broken , twisted or near non-existent . |
| 6 | I still hesitated and she added , ‘ You wo n't regret it , believe me . |
| 7 | ‘ I grew up in Batavia , Illinois , which is where I still live and work . |
| 8 | Carrie thought of all the people she knew in the world , all of them still eating and breathing and walking about , and then of Mrs Gotobed , lying still . |
| 9 | Your underflesh wo n't stand up to depleted uranium or armour-piercing rockets , and you still burn and bleed like the rest of us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If your horse wins and is placed a couple of times you still lose and that is ridiculous . |
| 11 | Parents and children both desperately need each other 's love and respect and it is important to let it be seen that you still accept and value one another , even in the midst of the turbulent years of the teens . |
| 12 | Er while you were working did you still try and get sort of like odds and ends and little bits of money ? |
| 13 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |
| 14 | At the age of 30 , she still looked and behaved like a teenager . |
| 15 | His mouth ground down hard , forcing a terrible anger to her heart because he was untrue and yet she still loved and needed him . |
| 16 | And after closing the door , she still stood and repeated to herself , ‘ Land up in the same way as you did . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah they 're all nice nice girls you know this is like the other week we was here playing the other team and one of the other team was swearing you know , and particularly you know the girls in , might have not they have the they used to play for Black Bear and you know the that lady that 's up there , she still swears and we stopped her from here used to f this , f that and f the other , we did , we stopped her said if you ca n't find a better word than that to use I should n't bother , you know As you know Shirl do n't like that . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , they still function and still live in the married quarters with their families . |
| 19 | Their momentum has gone but they still creak and boulders still tumble as the flow settles . |
| 20 | Nothing about ‘ turning corners ’ , or any other lovely cliches just ‘ no ’ … but they still came AND out sang Leeds much of the time . |
| 21 | This they have plainly not been able to do and yet they still try and bounce us along the same old route through their friends in the media . |
| 22 | Discarding the bird bone , Grimm gathered up Meh'Lindi 's silk gown , stole and slippers from where they still lay and headed for the bedroom door , followed by Meh'Lindi . |
| 23 | Everything else is original ; the frets are very worn down , but they still work and I would n't like to touch them until I have to . |
| 24 | Only where the grapes are for local wine are they still trodden and pressed where picked . |
| 25 | They still wheedled and played their little tricks . |
| 26 | She went to find her husband , and discovered him still laughing and ducking the tomato barrage , naked from the waist up but liberally coated with a kind of raw ketchup . |
| 27 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 28 | Every morning and evening he came and my wing got better , though it still hurt and was just a little crooked . |
| 29 | CDS is committed to supporting that hardware until at least the year 2000 — it still builds and sells them — though there will be no further additions to the series . |
| 30 | It still exists and it will undoubtedly catch up with the retail price index shortly and go ahead of it from 1994 onwards , as the direct tax burden which is included in the TPI rises faster than the indirect taxes which go into the RPI . |