Example sentences of "and i [vb base] still " in BNC.

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1 Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’
2 ‘ I 'm not yet 30 and I 've still got plenty of time to earn more money , ’ he shrugged .
3 ‘ In mining there was a closeness and bond between us and I 've still got friends who work there .
4 But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’
5 They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me .
6 My father came from the Clyde , and I 've still got some cousins near Dunoon .
7 I went into the water industry at seventeen years , and I 've still not figured out how to do these new ones and make them go backwards I can do the other ones .
8 sterling silver , and I 've still got it .
9 I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home .
10 Please feel free to comment , I did n't spend much time on it and I 've still got that bloody hangover ! !
11 Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know .
12 And I 've still got my unit trust thing but I know it 's gone down .
13 And I 've still got half a pack .
14 I ai n't got no best pans , I 've had my pa most of my pans , they 've all near enough come from either Embassy cigarette coupons or Number Six coupons , and I 've still got them and I 've had some of them twenty bloody years , all them pans .
15 I I thought like pictures of I 've got about like , got about three hundred and I 've still got five films too develop .
16 And I 've still not quoted the best known of those displays of otherness — these we shall come to later .
17 And I 've still nothing to report to you on the buses or trains .
18 And I 've still nothing to tell you about the buses or the trains .
19 And I 've still no problems to talk to you about , about the buses or the trains .
20 It is now 10.30pm and I have still not finished today 's Independent .
21 The Hampshire batsman said : ‘ The fact is I have n't figured in the last two England sides , and I have still got things to prove .
22 The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery .
23 Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures .
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