Example sentences of "[conj] still [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , right , there seems to be something that , that , that survives all of those changes er that we can talk about and still me .
2 And still they boo if the mood takes them .
3 Most campesinos live between two thousand and four thousand metres up in the mountains , in the harshest land , and still they are exploited .
4 Freezing fog and still they drive at high speed .
5 With fertilisers the same crops can be grown year after year on the same fields and still they give high yields .
6 And still they treat this house like a hotel —
7 One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff .
8 It was nearly five-thirty and still they had not arrived .
9 He backed away , and still they struck and lunged in his direction ; he backed away even more until he could barely see them in the gloom .
10 Eight weeks of collecting the order and still they have n't paid a penny .
11 You 're working and you 're not bugging anyone and you turn yourself in — they do n't come and pick you off the street — and still they do this . ’
12 Flooded out : The worst rain for twenty years and still they warn of drought .
13 And still they 've condemned it .
14 They hear about him , again and again , and still they , as the bible says , harden their heart and continue to reject him just like Pilate .
15 Ethirajulu Krishnan , director for CARE , in Somalia says : ‘ We are trying to deal with all this and still we know that we are only reaching the tip of the iceberg .
16 I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on .
17 The hon. Member for Garscadden says that banding protects the rich and the hon. Member for Dagenham says that the Government are clobbering the rich , and still we do not know .
18 So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank .
19 Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on .
20 And still he heard her voice , dimmed by the veils of his self-consumption :
21 A thing can be true and still he desperate folly , Hazel . "
22 The endearment eased the expression of pain on his face a little , but still he held me and still he searched my eyes for something I knew was n't there .
23 And still he never moved .
24 He had been there in the palace at Tongjiang with her , and still he had not visited her bed .
25 And still he stared .
26 He is caged and he is muzzled — and still he is arrogant and defiant and still there is the cynical mockery in his eyes .
27 The smoke from the incinerator made Harry blink and cough , but Morpurgo , who was stooped over the very top of it , seemed unaffected and still he paid his visitor no heed .
28 He could ransack his brain a dozen times , he realized , and still he would be unable to explain it .
29 Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved .
30 And still he did not know whether he should be laughing or weeping .
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