Example sentences of "[adv] though they have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these farm workers originally migrated from Zambia or Mozambique , but some have been in Zimbabwe for a generation or more though they have no regularized status . |
| 2 | An eagle flies better than a pelican even though they 've both got wings . ’ |
| 3 | Nowadays , everyone seems to call everyone else by their first name , even though they 've never met them before . |
| 4 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 5 | You do read terrible stories in the papers every day of men who 've murdered their wives , get off even though they 've chopped their wives into a hundred bits , driven to the Lake District overnight , dumped the body and gone back |
| 6 | Even though they 've been squandering our money now . |
| 7 | Romance has blossomed between Amanda and convicted killer , Bobby Downs , even though they 've never met . |
| 8 | Developers who 've begun turning an old railway site into a multi-million pound housing , shops and offices complex , have promised that work will continue even though they 've put the development up for sale . |
| 9 | No I , what I do is I test it , I clean it out even though they 've done it |
| 10 | I think so , It made me feel that some actually seem to be quite keen to have suburban or mid-week , even though they 've had city centre ones in the past . |
| 11 | A great deal of my audience enjoyed them immensely even though they 'd never heard them before . |
| 12 | Her mouth was a red gash in her powdered face and when in Act Two she told her husband that the degenerate Martin had never loved her , never ever , even though they 'd conducted an affair , real tears trickled from her tragic eyes . |
| 13 | The depth of semi-recognition , even though they 'd never met , was puzzling and disturbing . |
| 14 | Timothy Gedge , with his hollow cheeks and his gawkiness , had picked on them even though he did n't know them , even though they 'd done him no harm . |
| 15 | Leeds were quoted at 20–1 to win it , even though they 'd just shown an interview with Howard saying the squad we have now is better than the one we had when we won the thing . |
| 16 | even though they 'd taken the car . |
| 17 | Last night , the East German Foreign Ministry issued a statement attacking the attitude of the refugees : ‘ Some East German citizens will justifiably ask why we let these people emigrate to West Germany via East Germany , even though they had grossly violated our laws , ’ said the statement read as the main television news item . |
| 18 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 19 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 20 | They would see a precipitous rise in taxes even though they had high outgoings and despite the fact their income was barely above the combined average earnings for two adults ( approximately £35,000 ) , or even below it . |
| 21 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 22 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 23 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 24 | The spots then started disappearing , so I went training even though they had n't completely gone . |
| 25 | Even though they had failed by their own standards , the Nazis had reduced and contained the power of the communists , DVNP and SPD . |
| 26 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 27 | Even though they had been confirmed … in writing they remained without support or corroboration and should not have been accepted … as sufficient for the purposes of an unqualified certificate . ’ |
| 28 | By now , about 1030 , they needed reinforcement , even though they had lodged a foothold from their beach headquarters in spite of meeting fiercer opposition than expected : some 50 men of a crack regiment were spending Christmas in the town . |
| 29 | The Greeks distrusted this theology , even though they had a deep respect for Augustine , because they thought that it was too anthropomorphic . |
| 30 | I was sad to see the martins go , even though they had often been very noisy at night and kept me awake . |