Example sentences of "though [pers pn] also [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 2 | ( We wrote the marks themselves on paper , so that these could not be changed by program , though we also kept them electronically in order to allow electronic analysis of marks . ) |
| 3 | Miss Rawlings , formerly married to Lord Wolfson , tells me : ‘ We felt strongly that young artists from all around Britain should be supported , though we also chose pieces of two established artists , Michael Craig-Martin and Boyd Webb , and also a lovely bronze by Kenneth Armitage . ’ |
| 4 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they also became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 5 | Even so , the machine drill certainly speeded up drilling operations though it also lessened the need for a previously vital part of the miner 's essential skill . |
| 6 | During the nineteenth century quinine was the firm 's most profitable product , though it also manufactured many other fine chemicals , including cocaine , ether , borax , and citric acid . |
| 7 | In general it may be said that ‘ Cromwell 's decade ’ saw a doubling of the ordinary revenue of the Crown — though it also saw an increased expenditure , especially on the household , administration , defence , and Ireland . |
| 8 | AY 's defence centred around the claim that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar , as its auditor , and not to WG , even though it also audited the WG group accounts . |
| 9 | The district benefited from the fact that it had comparative information on performance from a large range of providers which enabled them to take a more detached view of the strengths and weaknesses of its own unit , even though it also increased the complexity of contracting . |
| 10 | As such , he saw Darwinian theory as having something to say to social scientists , even though he also emphasised that there is a ‘ cultural ’ level specifically associated with conceptualising human beings . |
| 11 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 12 | He caught the tangy smell of soap , though he also sniffed the stench of corruption and the dank smell of a charnel house which stood in one corner of the grounds . |
| 13 | But giving up performing also helped them develop personally in other directions : John Lennon acted in a film called How I Won The War ( of best-forgotten quality ) ; George Harrison travelled to India to study the sitar and encounter Eastern religion ; Ringo Starr concentrated on his expanding home and family ; and Paul McCartney wrote some film music and travelled in Africa , though he also felt rather lost ( he tried to think about God , he said , but nothing came ) . |
| 14 | One patient had ileal ( by barium follow through ) and rectal Crohn 's disease , one had an ileal vascular malformation ( showed by angiography and at laparotomy ) and one had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with a slight increase in chromium labelled red cell loss ( though he also took aspirin ) . |
| 15 | Although Invergordon had cut back production like most other distillers , Dr Greig stressed that there would be no closures or job losses , though he also said that life was ‘ becoming more competitive all the time ’ . |
| 16 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 17 | Angus Wilson claimed to have read and reread Richardson 's Clarissa , for all its immense bulk , starting at the age of eighteen , admiring above all its triumphant creation of fantasy out of realistic detail — a realism made transcendent — though he also admired the ‘ God 's eye view ’ of the great nineteenth-century novels . |
| 18 | Thomas had grown up in the neighborhood of the machine and one day he had bought it , bringing it to England by boat and vaguely intending to explore the possibility of supplying a spring though he also liked it well as it still was . |