Example sentences of "[adv] though they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , the East German Foreign Ministry issued a statement attacking the attitude of the refugees : ‘ Some East German citizens will justifiably ask why we let these people emigrate to West Germany via East Germany , even though they had grossly violated our laws , ’ said the statement read as the main television news item . |
| 2 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 3 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 4 | They would see a precipitous rise in taxes even though they had high outgoings and despite the fact their income was barely above the combined average earnings for two adults ( approximately £35,000 ) , or even below it . |
| 5 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 6 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 7 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 8 | The spots then started disappearing , so I went training even though they had n't completely gone . |
| 9 | Even though they had failed by their own standards , the Nazis had reduced and contained the power of the communists , DVNP and SPD . |
| 10 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 11 | Even though they had been confirmed … in writing they remained without support or corroboration and should not have been accepted … as sufficient for the purposes of an unqualified certificate . ’ |
| 12 | By now , about 1030 , they needed reinforcement , even though they had lodged a foothold from their beach headquarters in spite of meeting fiercer opposition than expected : some 50 men of a crack regiment were spending Christmas in the town . |
| 13 | The Greeks distrusted this theology , even though they had a deep respect for Augustine , because they thought that it was too anthropomorphic . |
| 14 | I was sad to see the martins go , even though they had often been very noisy at night and kept me awake . |
| 15 | The two other new jobs went to people who could hardly be described as outsiders , even though they had not been either Founders or members of the Executive Committee . |
| 16 | Even though they had an ideologically correct black drummer . |
| 17 | Even though they had all agreed beforehand to the principle of a supranational institution , the six states of ‘ little ’ Europe — France , West Germany , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg — faced nine months of hard bargaining after they formally began negotiations in June 1950 . |
| 18 | The Six therefore simply accepted to resume collaboration even though they had failed to reach a resolution acceptable to all governments : in essence , they agreed to disagree . |
| 19 | However , given the history of the relationship between the Inns and the judges which we have recited in this judgment we can see nothing conceptually difficult about the judges , as visitors , telling the Inns that they now perceived that their particular disciplinary procedures were unfair and needed rectification , even though they had concurred , in principle , in the creation of those procedures . |
| 20 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 21 | Cardiff was now somehow not surprised to find that the sound of the man 's voice was familiar — even though they had never met before . |
| 22 | In Masterson v. Holden for example , it was not shown against the homosexual couple in Oxford Street that they were actually aware of the presence of bystanders who were incensed at what the defendants were doing , even though they had every reason to be so aware . |
| 23 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 24 | Even though they had occupied it separately , the fact that they had shared his bed created an intimacy that was impossible to ignore . |
| 25 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 26 | Shannon could n't help but feel a ripple of warmth for the man , even though they had n't even been introduced yet . |
| 27 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 28 | Two who were released , were later recalled , even though they had committed no further offences . |
| 29 | In addition , we eliminated from the study all patients who were referred because of reflux symptoms even though they had asthma . |
| 30 | The tips owners , who were not available for comment , have been told that the responsibility for making the tip safe is theirs , even though they had up until recently leased out the site to a local company which operated the tip . |