Example sentences of "but [pron] still [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I still had more room than I needed in that so that was quite useful . |
| 2 | Some years earlier , I had lost almost 2st ( 12.7kg ) from my heaviest weight of 10st 3lbs ( 65 kg ) , but I still had revolting hips and thighs as you will see from my ‘ before ’ photograph . |
| 3 | But I still got that feeling that we lost something . |
| 4 | It 's type and it 's shimmering in appearance , in a slightly violent way , but I still like those things . |
| 5 | But I still ran 20.51 seconds for a personal best , so I was happy . |
| 6 | ‘ But I still need more money than I 'm earning , to look after Josh . ’ |
| 7 | soc : I 'm sorry , but I still have real problems with this picture of the experiment as an ideal . |
| 8 | Now I 've gone lazy but I still have enough gumption to realise the breakthrough is not going to be intellectual but spiritual . |
| 9 | But I still appreciate good manners in men . |
| 10 | However , there is one monkey , the owl monkey of South America , that has little useful colour vision , being a nocturnal animal , but which still possesses these blobs . |
| 11 | Further evidence comes from the fact that the chromosomes are littered with old genetic text that is no longer used , but which still makes recognizable sense . |
| 12 | But you still have that craving . |
| 13 | She was thirty-six when she cleared out and she 'd had three kids , but she still made younger women look and feel like there was no contest . ’ |
| 14 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 15 | For the last seventy-three years the Bishop of Durham was a scholar ; five bishops in succession ranging from one who was among the leading minds of Europe to one who was more a publicist than a scholar but who still had academic interests . |
| 16 | We made amendments to our procedures on the advice of the support group , but we still expected negative comments . |
| 17 | But we still face grave risks to our security . |
| 18 | But we still need some circumstance , or group of circumstances , to trigger off such accumulatory and , it must be emphasised again , episodic sedimentation . |
| 19 | ‘ Charity donations are keeping everything going , but we still need statutory resources . |
| 20 | ‘ There has been much talk that Rangers have the title sewn up but we still have 58 points to play for and that makes it ludicrously premature to suggest that the destination of the title is cut and dried , ’ said Brady . |
| 21 | ‘ We are highly regarded in Japan for our technical quality and scientific approach , but we still have some way to go . ’ |
| 22 | But we still have some way to go . |
| 23 | But they still hold substantial portfolios of international shares and the fear is that they could attempt to sell these , setting off a chain reaction in other financial markets . |
| 24 | But , you know , a lot of those repeats get huge audiences , and th they must have repeated Dad 's Army , and 'Ello , 'Ello about fourteen hundred times , but they still get enormous ratings , those programmes . |
| 25 | But they still received some protection from folk like the English kings who found profit in them , and especially from William Rufus , who seems quite sincerely to have disliked the Church 's intolerance ; and the Church itself strongly condemned violent persecution . |
| 26 | There is a war , but they still want friendly relations . ’ |
| 27 | They usually end up arguing , but they still love each other . |
| 28 | William III made sure that the crowns of his new territories stayed on the same head , but he still had separate governments in his different kingdoms . |
| 29 | A Goblin Big Boss may have a leadership of only 6 , but he still has 2 wounds and 3 attacks , can carry two magic items and costs only 33 points . |
| 30 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |