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 . |