Example sentences of "[pron] still [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's type and it 's shimmering in appearance , in a slightly violent way , but I still like those things .
2 I still have some problems with the idioms , ’ he said .
3 ‘ The force of the blast ripped the buckle off my watch and I still have some bits of shrapnel inside me , which will make their way out . ’
4 I still have some letters which Mother and Father wrote to each other — beautiful letters , which are a revelation of their lives , both when they were courting and after they were married .
5 ‘ It seems that I still have some friends in Swansea , ’ Edward said softly , ‘ no-one could convict me on such trumped-up evidence .
6 Keys I get them out I still lost those ones that I got with the matches .
7 I still want some answers . ’
8 One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously .
9 However , there is one monkey , the owl monkey of South America , that has little useful colour vision , being a nocturnal animal , but which still possesses these blobs .
10 Thus calligraphy was the source of the ornaments which still decorate most type-faces , despite efforts earlier this century to dispose of them ( see box ) .
11 I fink 'e still misses those 'orses . ’
12 Mrs Bowers , 30 , who still bears some scars from the attack last March , told the court : ‘ It felt like my face was physically moving all over the place and burning . ’
13 Do you still have any vacancies for chambermaids ? …
14 ‘ Do you still have these things ? ’
15 ‘ Do you still have those dreams ? ’
16 ‘ Sebastian , ’ she addressed her brother the night before she was due to present herself at G Vasey Ltd for interview , ‘ I do n't suppose you still have those specs you wore when you played a professor in — ’
17 ‘ He 's getting fed up of people coming up to him and saying ‘ Are you still running these days ? ’
18 As long as you still think these thoughts you will continue to believe them and you wo n't succeed .
19 By Friday she had arranged everything to Rob 's satisfaction , although as she handed Luke his notes for the meeting in York she still had some reservations about his reaction to his brother 's methods of expressing gratitude .
20 As they clustered at the door , preparing their faces for the raw air , she still sensed those eyes burning into her .
21 At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs .
22 However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident .
23 But there is a trick to feeling the need for a tenth rehearsal during the ninth rehearsal because one still hears many things that can become better , because one still knows something to say in the tenth rehearsal .
24 ‘ Kent bore the brunt and we still receive many calls asking about replacement trees .
25 However , we still find many cases where it is difficult to explain tonic placement in terms of ‘ importance ’ or ‘ information ’ .
26 Sadly , we still find many examples of this problem .
27 Against this loss we still have those players who sat out and who are very close to the standard of the team that played ’ .
28 We know that we still have several hours of concentrated work ahead and another meal to look forward to at the end of the working day .
29 However , I felt we still needed more trials so that I could prove without doubt that my inch loss theory worked .
30 The agreement formally ended 13 years of civil war , although small-scale fighting reportedly continued , and analysts were generally cautious in their appraisal of the agreement , noting that there still remained many barriers to genuine peace in Cambodia .
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