Example sentences of "[pron] still [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though I see Cam every day , I still wake up in the morning and go ‘ Wicked ! |
| 2 | I still prefer my original state of having been deceived . |
| 3 | Although deep-freezing has revolutionised the way food is preserved , with some kinds of fish I still prefer the old method of salting and sun drying . |
| 4 | The Fantasia in F minor , written for mechanical organ but one of the composer 's most intensely dramatic utterances , comes off fairly well ( but not as well as with Frantz and Eschenbach , who are compelling in this great work ) , but I still prefer the weight and variety of organ tone here ; and if the Adagio of the C minor Fugue with its two-piano writing is a trifle ponderous , the D major Sonata for two pianos that follows is not all so . |
| 5 | ‘ Yet in a way I still prefer The Young Can Suffer . |
| 6 | But I still prefer him in my side than playing against me . |
| 7 | Even now I still prefer pop for listening . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not so keen on that much of a St I still prefer that . |
| 9 | I still prefer my green chesterfield , Bobby and it gets so much rough treatment but they mellow . |
| 10 | But I still prefer the other one . |
| 11 | I still make necklaces from strips of knitting with beads or marbles sewn in at intervals and they are still very popular , whether ‘ wooly ’ for sweaters or lurexed for evening wear ; but |I have recently been trying very simple macramé to knot several strips decoratively together and maybe add a few beads or jewels and the results can be quite spectacular . |
| 12 | Now I mean many of the erm practices of religion I 'm not sure I understand them all , but but I still take part in them . |
| 13 | I 've told him and he gave that wee white one and it 's , I still take the kind of , but I do go on them you know , when I 'm really bad . |
| 14 | My training has been as a scientist , and I still ask questions which begin ‘ Why ? ’ ( as well as others beginning ‘ How ? ’ and ‘ What if ? ’ . |
| 15 | more And that 's why I said , when it sounded so low that 's why I I still doubt his figures . |
| 16 | I still yearn |
| 17 | ‘ I still correspond with Michael Faraday . |
| 18 | I still weigh 66 kilos and still have a galaxy of spots around my nose and all over my chin . |
| 19 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 20 | I still recognize that poem as being utterly my own . |
| 21 | To be sure , we have all moved on since films directed by Hitchcock were unravelled in the search for strands of ‘ Catholic guilt ’ , but equally I still teach gay students who find it genuinely empowering to learn of the homosexuality of a cultural figure as one contributing factor to the work that he/she produced . |
| 22 | Milkmaids ( the Yorkshire name for lady 's smock ) , knapweed , sheep 's sorrell ( I still chew the leaves for their acrid flavour ) , cowslip , harebell and meadow cranesbill are beautiful , useful and welcome natives . |
| 23 | I still get very nervous when I meet people who I admire … ‘ |
| 24 | I still get butterflies coming down the steps to the tournament table . |
| 25 | I still get randy when I think of that voluptuous female , as she was then . |
| 26 | ‘ I still get nightmares . ’ |
| 27 | But she said : ‘ I still get an allowance from my Mom . ’ |
| 28 | I still get jelly in the belly , Joe , when I stand up and face those bods . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I still get a kick out of listening to records that do n't have an ingrained time period , records by people like The Cravats or Metal Urban or early Cabaret Voltaire . |
| 30 | I hate to sound sappy , but anything can make me cry , and I still get melancholy during the fall or when the sun goes down . |