Example sentences of "[pers pn] still [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still went to the US though , and caddied for Andy North , but I got plenty of chance to talk to Sandy that year ( 1980 ) and struck up an acquaintance with him . |
| 2 | There are things certain things I 'm committed to and to have time off means I still got to be able to do those things . |
| 3 | And that 's because I still get to you . ’ |
| 4 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 5 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 6 | Chairman and I , I still stick to wh what I said that I think that we ought to reverse and , and p put two to number one erm er and with the addition of those words , because |
| 7 | ‘ But I still cling to the hope that I 'm mistaken , ’ Steve went on seriously , ‘ that I was n't in love and it was in fact infatuation . ’ |
| 8 | By sublimation I mean here not the conversion of sexuality per se into a higher , non-sexual aim , but the displacement of one kind of sexuality into another — or , more exactly ( and this is the sense in which I still subscribe to Freud 's notion ) , the contamination of a higher ( i.e. socially approved ) sexuality by a lower ( i.e. proscribed ) one . |
| 9 | I still remain to be convinced that either Cantona ( or McAllister for that matter ) can stand up and be counted when the crunch matches come around . |
| 10 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 11 | In spite of all my education , I still seemed to be the coarse , common boy she used to laugh at . |
| 12 | I was aware that the impending birth of AC2 Herriot 's child did not influence the general war strategy but I still wanted to be as near to Helen as possible at the time . |
| 13 | I still add to subjects that are particularly in my line — playground games like marbles , tops and balls — as at the moment I am working on a book about children 's play . |
| 14 | P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue — am I still allowed to be a punk ? |
| 15 | I still have to . ’ |
| 16 | In one way the length of the history was a good thing as I have benefited in the end from the latest surgical techniques available in London , and although I still have to be careful it has made a tremendous difference to my life . |
| 17 | I 'm pessimistic because I believe that if the council is to tackle what I still believe to be a big problem of the local authority then it can not really do so without the support of the largest party on this authority and if we have heard erm an honest assessment of their perception of of the case , I I really I really do despair that this council will will get to the bottom of the problem . |
| 18 | I still pray to God to help me before every race . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I still expect to be caretaker manager at Wembley on May 9 . |
| 20 | Mr Taylor will know the position and I still expect to be named in the squad on Tuesday . |
| 21 | And I still want to be that person ; I want to be happy ; I want to look good ; I want to command the situation I 'm in . |
| 22 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 23 | " I still want to be around when the house re-opens . " |
| 24 | ‘ I still want to be out there , ’ said Navratilova , who has won four tournaments this year . |
| 25 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 26 | ‘ There is a part of me still wants to be back in Bosnia and if I get the chance I 'll be there like a shot . ’ |
| 27 | Alright , do you still want to be friends ? |
| 28 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you still intend to be a missionary ? ’ |
| 30 | You still seem to be his prime suspect . ’ |