Example sentences of "[adv] though they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these farm workers originally migrated from Zambia or Mozambique , but some have been in Zimbabwe for a generation or more though they have no regularized status . |
| 2 | Often though they proceed to deal seriously enough , as blindly hooked as punters , and no less destined for disillusionment . |
| 3 | Fast though they run , they all keep in step , so that the whole group looks more like a snake gliding through the undergrowth than a family of young mammals on an outing . |
| 4 | At any rate at the beginning , there was a certain even-handedness towards France and the Vietminh coupled with resistance to France 's manifest intention that the US could hardly help being involved , one way or another , even though they professed neutrality . |
| 5 | The Tallentires were staunch Chapel folk even though they owned a pub . |
| 6 | So why does a company with such a history of agility and skill remain tied to pots and pans even though they act as such a drag on its performance ? |
| 7 | Comments so far : I do n't really like membrane switches ; they have a vague , indistinct action , even though they help in keeping gig-type crud out of the workings . |
| 8 | This is true even though they bring to the search the knowledge they already possess about how spoken language works . |
| 9 | The number of different ‘ yous ’ — all every bit as real as you are , even though they inhabit a different universe — that have been generated since you read that last sentence is literally uncountable . |
| 10 | But even though they guaranteed to provide every customer who had allowed three quarters of an hour er for a meal , you know , you would have to lay down in very great deal would n't you ? |
| 11 | From these , it is clear that a buyer can be owner of the goods even though he has not paid for them and even though they remain in the seller 's possession . |
| 12 | An eagle flies better than a pelican even though they 've both got wings . ’ |
| 13 | Nowadays , everyone seems to call everyone else by their first name , even though they 've never met them before . |
| 14 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 15 | You do read terrible stories in the papers every day of men who 've murdered their wives , get off even though they 've chopped their wives into a hundred bits , driven to the Lake District overnight , dumped the body and gone back |
| 16 | Even though they 've been squandering our money now . |
| 17 | Romance has blossomed between Amanda and convicted killer , Bobby Downs , even though they 've never met . |
| 18 | Developers who 've begun turning an old railway site into a multi-million pound housing , shops and offices complex , have promised that work will continue even though they 've put the development up for sale . |
| 19 | No I , what I do is I test it , I clean it out even though they 've done it |
| 20 | I think so , It made me feel that some actually seem to be quite keen to have suburban or mid-week , even though they 've had city centre ones in the past . |
| 21 | They 've decided that marriage ceremonies have nothing to do with how they feel , even though they regard their relationship as being every bit as permanent as marriage . ’ |
| 22 | It is rare for children to welcome their parents ' separation even though they welcome an end to any violence , arguments , shouting or unpleasantness . |
| 23 | They have also been to the fore in the planning of opposition to the recent Anglo-Irish talks even though they know that the collapse of those talks will make it very unlikely that the constitutional Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party will take its place in the Assembly . |
| 24 | Many people have had experiences of déjà vu , when they have come across a place which they are able to describe in precise detail even though they know they have never been there before . |
| 25 | Reasoning powers can deteriorate : people may begin to think irrationally ( and do so even though they know they are doing so ) ; they may begin to get paranoid , feeling that others are slyly poking fun at them , excluding them from discussions , or being condescending or patronizing . |
| 26 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 27 | We spent an afternoon with plantation workers who continue to do health promotion training even though they earn little and live in an area where such work can be rewarded by a place on a death list . |
| 28 | Under the new system Elizabeth and William would have had to pay a contribution of more than £1,000 even though they earn only about £7,200 between them . |
| 29 | Even though they lived inside stone buildings , they furnished them like tents . |
| 30 | A European Court of Justice ruling on July 21 was seen as opening up the possibility of EC citizens applying for social security benefits in the United Kingdom even though they lived outside the UK . |