Example sentences of "though [pron] [verb] never [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With × 12 it is easy , and with × 20 quite distinctive , though I have never been able to resolve even its outer parts without using a telescope . |
| 2 | Some people have likened it to a teapot , though I have never been able to make out why . |
| 3 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 4 | Aunt Sophie woke suddenly , eyes clear , as though she had never been asleep . |
| 5 | In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) . |
| 6 | It was very much the custom of most churches in central Oxford , even though it has never been obligatory in the Anglican Communion . |
| 7 | Craig was suddenly in the room , moving towards her , holding out his arms to her as though he had never been absent . |