Example sentences of "though they [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He assured her that he was unhappily married , never had sex with his wife though they slept in the same bed , and that they often thought of divorce . |
| 2 | But these are women who have not very much experience of a particular current within British feminism which sees men very much as the enemy , though they went through a tremendous process of political change during the strike and with the development of their organisation , many marriages , for example , split up and the women gained a whole new identity of themselves as individual women . |
| 3 | It was often difficult to dislike the gentle , painted hippies , even though they subscribed to a strange new communal , non-hierarchic lifestyle incorporating the unlawful use of ‘ dope ’ . |
| 4 | Goldman 's defence was that , as a market-maker in MCC shares , it was exempted from having to disclose its holdings , even though they rose above the 3 p.c. threshhold above which investors other than market-makers must make public disclosure . |
| 5 | Compression joints are not the same as those used for copper pipe though they work on a similar principle . |
| 6 | Xylocopa and the sunbirds are mostly found in the forest fringes , foraging on gap-phase plants though they move to the mature forest trees during flowering periods . |
| 7 | When the people from Furnace Road visit the new housing estates they feel hemmed in , for though they live in a tight little terrace with backyard behind , and rug-sized gardens in front , they are used to a spaciousness that is due not to planning but to the lack of plan . |
| 8 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |