Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] though [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stared wildly up at her cage roof but though it was buckled by the fall of the tree branch it was still intact and she could not escape . |
| 2 | Aj was directing the action as though he was a producer in charge of a play , and Hugh , Mike and Debby were up to their thighs in stinking lake water ; Debby was fetchingly attired in green chest waders and looked like a cross between Jeremy Fisher and a model in kinky rubberwear . |
| 3 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 4 | But it is out of respect for your views , Mr Lewis , that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric . |
| 5 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
| 6 | But last night he had refused even to consider what she had told him , tossing it to one side as though it did n't matter . |
| 7 | This produced a laugh which unfortunately brought on such a fit of coughing that Wilson was obliged to put Pilade down and attend to the invalid as though she were still her maid . |
| 8 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 9 | And he walked away from the manor as though he had arrived there as empty-handed , half-naked and alone as when he left . |
| 10 | Richard said , carrying on his own monologue as though I had n't spoken . |
| 11 | Somebody asked why the Bright Palace was no longer bright , and Dorrainge said , ‘ Because of Medoc 's dark enchantments of course , ’ and looked at the soldier as though he thought him a complete fool . |
| 12 | Start from scratch this spring with a thorough clean-out and then treat the pond as though it were a new one , going through the necessary maturation process . |
| 13 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 14 | Still , he shook hands with the stranger as though they were old acquaintances . |
| 15 | He argues that no social units can be treated in isolation as though they had no contact with others : all groups , whether tribes , villages , nations or families interact with other groups . |
| 16 | With a great effort , holding his concentration as though he had it in his two hands , he added . |
| 17 | This time he carried in one hand , carefully cupped , a broad leaf filled with honey ; in the other hand he grasped a few nuts which he thrust out to Marian with an air of uncertainty as though he feared they might be rejected as the maggots were . |
| 18 | He had spoken the compliment as though he really meant it , just as he had the first time he 'd said it . |
| 19 | Only her red mouth glowed , and even from across the room I could see it smiling straight at me , the lips shining in the light as though she had just licked them , as though they were still moist . |
| 20 | A little red light as though he 's got no oil but he has . |
| 21 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 22 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 23 | He opened his mouth as though he was about to speak , then spun about and strode out of the house , leaving Sonny in a daze . |
| 24 | His eyes were bright with determination , his face flushed with a sense of the risks he was taking , and the still born smile twitched away at the comer of his mouth as though he was trying to eat his beard . |
| 25 | He opened his mouth as though he was about to say something , but then he closed it again . |
| 26 | You become very conscious in broadcasting that though you teach the same truths , you approach them from the opposite direction . |
| 27 | He had discovered Oliver weeping in the conservatory and though he remembered his own childhood clearly enough to know this was the likely end to any birthday , it touched and disturbed him . |
| 28 | That did not matter for soon burning aircraft lit the scene as though it were daylight . |
| 29 | He argued with the girl as though he was arguing with his daughter . |
| 30 | He gazed at them in a kind of wonder as though they were some priceless and irreplaceable treasure , then he slipped them in his pocket . |