Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They turned out to be very nice digs , but I was still faced , for the first time in my life , with the practicalities of keeping myself fed and clothed , and getting to lectures and passing exams . |
| 2 | The book was never published in America , but I was still called to testify at the committee hearing of the US Senate which was looking into the fate of the missing US prisoners of war . |
| 3 | I glanced at the faces on either side of the Colonel , but I was still fascinated by Charlie Vaughan . |
| 4 | But I was still broke , like . |
| 5 | But I 'm still left with the scars . ’ |
| 6 | I know he 's a liar , I know he can be a liar , but I 'm still bothered by it , I mean |
| 7 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 8 | You 're tilted slightly , and spinning , but you 're still attached . |
| 9 | When it comes to choosing cavalry you have fewer options than with infantry but you are still spoiled for choice compared to most armies . |
| 10 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 11 | Theda had washed the dirt off her hands , but she was still attired in the old cotton gown , now stained with blood as well as dirt . |
| 12 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 13 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 14 | But we 're still perplexed as to how the accident could have happened and we 're still looking for any motive for murder or suicide . ’ |
| 15 | Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’ |
| 16 | Attitudes in the media are slowly changing , but we are still presented with stereotyped images of older people . |
| 17 | Jason Donovan is not seeking the full amount controversially awarded him by the jury in the High Court , but we are still required to pay him the sum of £95,000 in reduced costs and damages . |
| 18 | But we are still left with the problem of just how the Stewart monarchy could achieve what it did . |
| 19 | The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement . |
| 20 | But we are still left with the problem of testing . |
| 21 | But they 're still mystified by the motive for such a terrible attack on a frail old woman … |
| 22 | But they 're still faced with looking for what they really want . |
| 23 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 24 | In some parts of the country spur and snag can mean the same thing , and in others have quite different meanings — but they are still caused by the same thing : bad pruning . |
| 25 | The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on . |
| 26 | But they are still used as nest-eggs and , in particular , they could find favour among directors with substantial interests in multi-nationals . |
| 27 | But they were still rated as " other " , a race apart . |
| 28 | Most of the chairs , however , were not subject to such private patronage , but they were still employed for political purposes , though usually on a somewhat higher political level than Dempster intended . |
| 29 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 30 | Women had always been denied the rights to vote in any election , but the Local Government Act , 1894 , gave women property owners , in England and Wales , the right to vote in local elections , but they were still excluded from Parliamentary elections . |