Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] though [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both maids came out , and although there were only two of them they seemed to surround and overwhelm her , not threateningly , but eagerly as though she brought gifts . |
| 2 | He took no part in the digging but squatted on the edge of the ditch , fidgeting backwards and forwards , sometimes nibbling and then starting up suddenly as though he could hear some sound in the wood . |
| 3 | In the brief pause before the auctioneer announced the next lot , Emily spotted her father near the back of the gathering , and , heads down as though they were in a cinema , she and Mungo scuttled round and crouched next to him . |
| 4 | Stair saw his brother and came forward to greet him , Havvie still at his side , his wife picking up and putting things down as though they were contaminated — she had not married Havvie in order to slum it , as she later said . |
| 5 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 6 | He took her hand between both his own , turning it palm upwards and gazing down as though he were a fortune-teller , searching the damp pinkness of her flesh for answers to all sorts of impossible questions . |
| 7 | It was absolutely pouring down as though someone up top was emptying buckets . |
| 8 | It was all as though I had a horrible secret I had to keep . ’ |
| 9 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 10 | They stood in groups around the bed smiling and talking , joking gently as though their words were necessary medicine . |
| 11 | The millionaire raised a hand to his left eye and massaged the lid gently as though it were sore . |
| 12 | Gently as though he might disturb it , he pulled back . |
| 13 | Neither partner has given it a thought for years , but let some outsider come barging in as though he owned the place and it 's war . |
| 14 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |
| 15 | That the cripple lived near the stream there was no doubt because his crutch prints were heavily marked on the path for a hundred paces or so as though he often came there , but beyond that point there were none . |
| 16 | There ai n't so many people about , and them that are look like they 're real busy — you know , just hurrying along as though they 're in a rush to get home . |
| 17 | ‘ They 'll manage without you , ’ said Juliet , and went into the ward , striding confidently along as though she belonged there . |
| 18 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 19 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 20 | She managed to walk with a reasonable degree of grace and dignity till she reached the back door , then scuttled inside as though her very life depended on it , taking the back stairs two at a time as she rushed to the bedroom to find a robe . |
| 21 | She sits down but does n't join in the conversations , her face is distracted and her hands move constantly as though she 's talking to herself . |
| 22 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |
| 23 | He tossed the expensive silk away as though it were a rag , revealing the bold , hard contours of his chest . |
| 24 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 25 | It 's not as though what Kenneth Clarke has done in the Health Service has actually done any good for our hospitals and medical services , and I do n't believe that he has anything to offer education either . |
| 26 | It is not as though they are paid a bonus for this production-line fishing . |
| 27 | It is not as though they were being asked to do an aerobatic display , Mildred . |
| 28 | Not as though they were real people , thinking real thoughts . |
| 29 | So it 's not as though they 're gon na get anyone to come . |
| 30 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |