Example sentences of "[conj] though she have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm . |
| 2 | She 'll do a good two hundred miles an hour , and though she 's got dual control you can take out the second seat next to the pilot 's to make room for a stretcher . ’ |
| 3 | But though she had wished things might have been different , she consoled herself with the knowledge that it could come to nothing . |
| 4 | Ferdinando stared at her as though she had gone mad . |
| 5 | For a moment he was horribly , surprisingly hurt , as though she had disowned him . |
| 6 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 7 | It was as though she had become two people . |
| 8 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 9 | Blanche thought she detected a flicker of self-satisfaction , as though she had confirmed what had been for him until then just a suspicion . |
| 10 | She felt as though she had touched something that was not quite of this world , the highest point of the heavens , the farthest star . |
| 11 | She looked pale and insubstantial , like a ghost , as though she had faded while I was with Poppy . |
| 12 | Blanche shivered with unease , as though she had stumbled into a crypt . |
| 13 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 14 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
| 15 | For the first time in her married life she saw pain in her husband 's eyes , as though she had plunged a knife into his body . |
| 16 | He flinched as though she had struck him , and his face suffused with anger . |
| 17 | He dropped his hands instantly , as though she had struck him . |
| 18 | He winced at the sight and drew back as though she had struck him . |
| 19 | She closed her eyes and kept them closed for quite a while , and when she opened them again it seemed as though she had gathered herself together . |
| 20 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 21 | I 'm completely in love with him , she thought , and felt as though she had fallen , finally , at his feet . |
| 22 | She felt more substantial than the other figures in the dream , almost as though she had troubled to step out of her own dreams to assist me with mine . |
| 23 | As though she had seen something which disturbed her from the window of the apartment . |
| 24 | To be honest , it looked as though she had given up on being a woman . |
| 25 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 26 | Daylight brought the prosaic world back again , and a Dr Neil who was exactly like the man she had always known — it was as though she had imagined the improper advances of the night hours . |
| 27 | ‘ Work ? ’ he said , raising his eyebrows and looking at her as though she had said drilling for oil or prospecting for gold . |
| 28 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 29 | Or she could say that Derek had always had charming manners and was in the habit of commending ladies on their scent , even if it smelled of Alexandrian sewers , and sound as though she had lost something worth keeping — and inevitably regretful . |
| 30 | In the morning , while the dream remained with her , she felt searingly deprived , as though she had been abandoned , as though she had lost someone known and loved . |