Example sentences of "[that] though [pron] might " in BNC.

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1 All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will .
2 And he construed from exchanges with others that though they might talk confidently about their childhood and adolescence , much of it was rumour and conjecture ; some of it pure fabrication .
3 I wondered uneasily whether he would be able to see from my face that though it might be the truth , it was not the whole truth .
4 The way he flushed told Jenna clearly that though he might not have been involved he certainly knew about it .
5 So wrote Llewelyn from Aber ; and between the lines they read plainly that though he might still be arguing for peace he had ceased to believe in it or greatly to desire it .
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