Example sentences of "though they [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the five years to March 1992 , operating profits grew three-fold ( though they temporarily fell , by 15% last year , because of a collapse in industrial investment ) . |
| 2 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 3 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they also became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 4 | To conclude this section , it is clear that the approaches to aesthetic control in post-war urban Britain began well , though they soon attracted the hostility first of architects and then of the lay public . |
| 5 | Vincent was never to forget the straightforwardness of this man and his direct , open way with him , though they soon quarrelled and parted company . |
| 6 | Charles Williams had been a friend of T. S. Eliot , but Lewis 's distrust of Eliot had been implacable , and their first meeting in 1945 , at Williams 's instigation , had been no better than guarded , though they later joined as Anglicans in retranslating the Book of Common Prayer version of the Psalter . |
| 7 | The two men ceased for a time even to acknowledge one another in the street ; and though they later resumed formal courtesies , close friendship was dead . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the smaller coffin-maker could not cope with the high-powered advertising of IPC and Dottridge Brothers , preferring to place miniature versions of their handiwork in the shop window for the benefit of passers-by , though they probably relied on the funeral furnishing warehouses for the supply of linings and coffin furniture . |
| 9 | For the Australian army was among the first , if not the first , Allied service taking up the commando idea , even though they already had nearly four divisions overseas . |
| 10 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 11 | Perhaps he could n't stand the thought of her being in the house all day , even though they rarely met ; and never , never since her mother died had they eaten together . |
| 12 | He saw how , though they still wore silks , the style had changed ; had been simplified . |
| 13 | As she threaded her way through the guests she forced her lips to smile , though they still felt the pressure of the kiss to which she had yielded so weakly . |
| 14 | A plumber came and installed a row of six washbasins in the cloakroom with running water , hot and cold at each , though they still had to run across the playground in all weathers to reach the outside lavatories . |
| 15 | The mystical writings of the fifth century author who had adopted the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite were quite well known in Europe , even though they never had the same appeal for Europeans as they had for the Greeks . |
| 16 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
| 17 | They build idealised models but then carry them over into real usage as though they really existed , forgetting that they had initially involved ‘ bracketing ’ certain assumptions . |
| 18 | The majority of middle class women who engaged in philanthropic work , volunteering their services to tend the sick and children in institutions , and to visit the homes of the poor , were not feminists , though they too stressed the unique contribution that women could make by virtue of their particular qualities of caring and sympathy . |
| 19 | Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they too became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end . |
| 20 | Furthermore , many clerics in the eighteenth century held modest livings though they too occupied a position of privilege in society . |
| 21 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 22 | One other noteworthy source of support to franchise bidders , bringing resources less of money than talent ( though they often acquired shareholdings later ) were the experienced broadcasters , many of whom came from the BBC ( inevitably , in 1955 ) . |
| 23 | Their theology was saturated in the gospel , though they often contended for it in the language of Greek philosophy . |
| 24 | Most of those who discussed human variety were talking about the differences in the physical appearance of human individuals , though they often mixed up characteristics which now seem to be plainly innate , such as skin colour , with characteristics which are plainly cultural , such as mode of dress . |
| 25 | But here again was a major institution in the land in clear conflict with the determined woman who bestrode government — and actually appointed bishops and archbishops as well ( though they often disappointed her ) . |
| 26 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 27 | He 'd come and witter on about where , exactly , we should put this cup , that bag of tissues and just adored pulling down our blindfolds , even though they always covered our noses , let alone our eyes . |
| 28 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 29 | Also like police court trials , witnesses had to pay their own expenses , even though they sometimes had to travel long distances , especially when a trial was postponed several times . |
| 30 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |