Example sentences of "though [pers pn] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I do blame Bernard , for getting himself mixed up with ethnic minorities . |
| 2 | This is imminent , though I do feel we should really proceed anyway . |
| 3 | I do n't look down on arts students , though I do moan about their empty timetables , but then , someone doing a German degree , no way could I do that , I have the greatest respect for them . |
| 4 | Though I do remember at one charity event the stage was invaded by all these uninvited , ageing rock stars only the older members of the audience could remember who they were ! ’ |
| 5 | No , perhaps that 's unfair ; I do not know precisely who , precisely when , precisely what ; though I do know that Gustave was never tired of double ententes about la pipe . |
| 6 | Though I do believe a cow once was maimed . |
| 7 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 8 | We are not Americans , even though I do hate the way we sometimes run around them like the little brother . |
| 9 | You have to start from your roots — though I do enjoy ethnic music . |
| 10 | The piece has grown on me , though I do wonder if there is any prejudice towards marquetry made of many pieces of veneer |
| 11 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 12 | This seems to me a very sound argument ; though I do wonder to how many cases of literary mistake it actually applies . |
| 13 | Though I do wonder … ’ |
| 14 | Maybe this year I 'll finally manage it if I begin now , though I do have other special presents to make too ! |
| 15 | ( Though I do have a friend — Bunny — who always insists on a female doctor or nurse if he has anything wrong of a private nature . |
| 16 | I ca n't promise to answer them individually , though I do try to if the knitter concerned seems in need of an urgent answer . |
| 17 | She 's a great ship , and we 've got a pretty good medical team , even though I do say so myself . |
| 18 | I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away . |
| 19 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 20 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
| 21 | A martingale would also have been superfluous , though I did buckle a stirrup leather round his neck to give a ‘ just in case ’ neckstrap . |
| 22 | I stayed where I was , trying to look indifferent , though I did set my beer aside and asked the bartender for a calming shot of Hypergrog . |
| 23 | And though I did hold passionate beliefs , I was a bit young to express them all . |
| 24 | I did n't feel guilty about it , though I did feel a bit inadequate somehow . |
| 25 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 26 | I do n't live round here ’ , and my mind sort of blacked out and I ca n't remember getting home , though I did get back , changed my clothes and had a bath . |
| 27 | Though I did get close to it once . ’ |
| 28 | Then she looked straight back into the old lady 's pale grey eyes and added , " Though I did hear tell that it was Sir Gregory himself , ma'am . " |
| 29 | Though I did notice that there was pine and oak in his house and not mahogany . ’ |
| 30 | Disappointingly though , in her efforts to be balanced Valentine rarely lets us see just where she stands ; though she does make a strong plea for psychologists not to ape either physics or sociology . |