Example sentences of "[conj] though she [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’ |
| 2 | Marjorie laughed , and though she was very kind , washing the lettuce and leaving it ready in the colander and telling her how to cook the asparagus and make a butter sauce , Emmie felt humiliated . |
| 3 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 4 | He could hear her voice as though she was here in this room , her own unique aroma all around him . |
| 5 | She behaved as though she was rather bored with this one , as though she knew him very well and yet had little use for the knowledge . |
| 6 | ‘ She was down before me , breakfasted and lookin' as though she was just off to complete a big business deal in the money centre of BA or wherever . |
| 7 | ‘ Damian … ! ’ she whispered , saying his name as though it was the most precious sound in the world , gaining intense pleasure from it on her lips as though she was really saying , I love you , I love you . |
| 8 | More and more , Beth found herself acting as the buffer between them , and curiously enough , at times when she sought to protect him , it seemed as though she was actually having to fight her own husband . |
| 9 | And when he bent his head , first to one breast and then the other , his lips closing over her swollen nipples , she felt as though she was almost going to die of excitement . |
| 10 | For one brief moment it felt as though she was almost drowning in ecstasy , and then she felt Ross removing his lips , cursing violently under his breath as he withdrew his arms from about her body . |
| 11 | It is as though she was deliberately coaxed into that warm and shabby coffee bar by whatever saving force or spirit I can feel ever more strongly in this no longer quite so bleak habitation of mine . |
| 12 | He looked as though she was deliberately punishing him . |
| 13 | But she did not pull away , and when he moved nearer still , holding her as though she was infinitely fragile , and turned her so that she was fully in his arms , her head on his shoulder , he did it so slowly that Sally-Anne felt not fear , but reassurance . |
| 14 | ‘ Julia , ’ she said , as though she were just waking up . |
| 15 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 16 | She would tell Robert that and let him know that she did n't need to be treated as though she were completely helpless . |
| 17 | She felt a great surge of depression and a feeling of imminent disaster as though she were very old and death was not far away . |
| 18 | Her little hand trembled in his much larger one , but Guy was too stunned to notice that she did n't pull away , although he continued to hold her as though she were as fragile as glass . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Had she really managed to look as though she were still holding together ? |
| 21 | Injecting a note of surprise into her voice as though she were only now aware of her presence , she greeted , ‘ Hello again , Mrs Beeson . |
| 22 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 23 | This came out so comically that they both began to laugh together , Neil putting his book down , and McAllister whooping into the apron which she had thrown over her head at his last sally , as though she were truly the skivvy she pretended to be . |
| 24 | Her growing indignation at the way they were discussing her as though she were so much merchandise was abruptly swamped by misery at the thought of giving herself to the man she had dreamed of for years in such a cold-blooded manner . |
| 25 | He even behaved to my mother , his exact contemporary , as though she were much older than he , deferring to her opinions with an air of youthful naivete . |
| 26 | Reality got through to her intermittently ; her apprehension of it was uncommonly tuned , for though she was generally oblivious to the most apparent , she was often startled by things to which others were deaf . |