Example sentences of "[adv] still [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could apparently still afford to give me lamb and rice , but the mood among his friends around the table was despairing . |
| 2 | You hit me you cunt so I 'll fucking still owe you one . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll not still marry Nahum , Anna ? |
| 4 | They could not still want her now . |
| 5 | Today we are supposedly living in the first great secular age of history ( though do we not still worship our own pagan idols — of money and success ? ) . |
| 6 | A.3.2 If the Vendor notifies the Purchaser of a ‘ breach ’ prior to completion but the Purchaser decides to proceed nonetheless ( ie he does not rescind ) then the Vendor should not still remain liable for damages ; the Purchaser has foregone the opportunity to get out of the deal if he does not like it any more . |
| 7 | I have known many who have competed in the Olympic Games and I do not know one who does not still cherish the memory and still treasure that thrill of competition at the highest level . |
| 8 | ‘ The offer I made to him to buy his shares before all this unsavoury business began does not still stand . |
| 9 | Can he not still keep his company car though , off sick . |
| 10 | If the Prince and Princess of Wales do decide to divorce there is nothing in law that says Charles can not still become king . |
| 11 | That does not mean that we do not still have problems in rural areas . |
| 12 | It would thus still have a two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly . |
| 13 | Basically if the band stays together then we 'll just still know the same people because |
| 14 | Such plans would nevertheless still need to be approved by the government or , if majority shareholdings were involved , by parliament . |
| 15 | He did this by bringing a camera up to his face , through which he could nevertheless still see the tiger 's actions . |
| 16 | Although he has said that he is not in favour of that , he would nevertheless still keep them if that was NATO 's decision . |
| 17 | Native speakers can usually still understand what is said , if necessary by guessing at inaudible or unrecognisable words on the basis of their knowledge of what the speaker is talking about ; foreign learners of English , on the other hand , having in general less ‘ common ground ’ or shared knowledge with the speaker , often find that these subordinate tone-units , with their ‘ throw-away ’ , parenthetic style , cause serious difficulties in understanding . |
| 18 | If the securities firm is a bank which has a banking branch in the UK , it will nonetheless still qualify as an overseas person if it does no investment business from that branch ; ( 4 ) Inter-dealer brokers acting as such ; ( 5 ) Listed money market institutions . |
| 19 | You 've probably seen the speed campaign , you know , kill your speed , forty mile an hour kills , twenty miles an hour you can possibly still get away with it . |
| 20 | They 'll probably still send somebody , but perhaps only one rather than two . ’ |
| 21 | Er a lot a lot of those merchants used to Probably still do , mooch round the flats . |
| 22 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 23 | They 'd probably still give it to you . ’ |
| 24 | If , perish the thought , Scotland were scarcely to win a ball from the lineout at Twickenham , this pack would probably still finish the championship having won more possession from that set-piece than any Scotland pack in living memory . |
| 25 | Well if they 're going onto eight hour regular they 'll probably they 'll probably still change their mind . |
| 26 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 27 | So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work . |
| 28 | ’ Some people — most people , perhaps — would probably still consider it women 's work . |
| 29 | If these proceedings do not result in termination of the lease , a tenant will probably still have incurred considerable legal expense — payment of the landlord 's legal costs for taking these forfeiture proceedings . |
| 30 | I could probably still have got across , but as I have said , the stones of the causeway were thick with seaweed , and treacherous even when exposed . |