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 | It was all as though I had a horrible secret I had to keep . ’ |
| 4 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 5 | They stood in groups around the bed smiling and talking , joking gently as though their words were necessary medicine . |
| 6 | The millionaire raised a hand to his left eye and massaged the lid gently as though it were sore . |
| 7 | Gently as though he might disturb it , he pulled back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He tossed the expensive silk away as though it were a rag , revealing the bold , hard contours of his chest . |
| 16 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 17 | He led the way into the next field , a pasture : and here they all fell to feeding , nibbling their way over the grass as easily as though their warren were close by . |
| 18 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 19 | A tap is turned , a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch applied to the piston , and up goes the end of the coach as easily as though it were a doll 's house . |
| 20 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 21 | Now she saw him , standing on the pavement outside the church , holding his thumb out to her and grinning beseechingly as though he were some hopeful teenager off on the hippy trail . |
| 22 | We read and experimented until we could stride into builders ' suppliers and ask for one-way cistern inlet valves , 1.5 mm triplecore insulated or three-inch steel angle brackets , just as though we had been born knowing all about it , like men ! |
| 23 | I have to stare at it very hard , Miss Honey , very very hard , and then I can feel it all happening behind my eyes , and my eyes get hot just as though they were burning but I do n't mind that in the least , and Miss Honey … |
| 24 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 25 | If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said . |
| 26 | But when she arrived at Grittleton to find an illegitimate daughter living there just as though she was one of the family , Lady Caroline stormed out . |
| 27 | Instead , Angus treated Miranda with distant respect , twitching his sandy eyebrows and speaking of inconsequential things — just as though she were his aunt … or maybe his stockbroker . |
| 28 | And they had always treated Liz — the same age as Laura — just as though she were their own child . |
| 29 | Oh , she talks about it so much , just as though it were yesterday . |
| 30 | You 'll see , Miss Charlotte , she told me , how you can walk into every room , check in every cupboard , count the books in your father 's library , just as though you were really there . ’ |