Example sentences of "though [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved the sound of his own singing , though no-one else did . |
| 2 | These schools are protestant , though nothing else is perhaps to lie expected when protestant — loyalist teachers teach protestant — loyalist children . |
| 3 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 4 | Rostand wrote other great successes also , though nothing quite on the memorable scale of Cyrano . |
| 5 | It was as though everyone else in the little hall — Mr Sands , the curious spectators , Havvie 's party — did not exist — only the three of them left in the world . |
| 6 | His discovery of a new freedom both theological and psychological was not easy for him to articulate though his widely circulated letter Ad Amicos revealed his absolute devotion to the search for God . |
| 7 | Rees , a key figure in Rugby 's rise from area league status to the top division over the past six years , made his decision for what he called personal reasons , though his increasingly sharp disagreements with Brain became a talking point . |
| 8 | Though his occasionally camp remarks signalled his homosexuality , he felt uncomfortable in the company of ‘ nancy ’ boys or ‘ queens ’ . |
| 9 | Her chest ached sharply , too , just as though someone really had been hitting into it . |
| 10 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 11 | I was about to dive back in among the hops , though I probably smelled like last night 's barmaid already , when the Shogun veered off to my right , and then pulled up about twenty feet from me . |
| 12 | The mountain bike was much easier to handle , and though I normally would n't prefer them they certainly do well in this kind of terrain . |
| 13 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 14 | Though I honestly thought you were his mum or his auntie , Jan ! |
| 15 | Though I rather wish people would n't do it . |
| 16 | Part of me would love to be in a relationship , but I 'm cautious about getting involved , even though I desperately want to be loved . |
| 17 | It 's one I first came across in one of the handy little circular walk leaflets published by the National Parks and , though I generally like to devise my own routes , it 's a cracking walk and at ten miles of easy walking a good stroll for hot high summer day or days when low cloud and drizzle make high fell-walking a grey punishment . |
| 18 | We have an awkward , and increasingly tense discussion about the use of such songs — for though I wholeheartedly agree that all the ideas they promote are self-evidently good things , I worry simply whether such songs have any positive effect — and they start bandying the word ‘ cynic ’ . |
| 19 | I did n't really look at him , though I immediately smelled alcohol on his breath , and thought , that firm is n't going to last long if it 's sending out drunken drivers to pick up clients . |
| 20 | Though I already felt confident of that . |
| 21 | It had n't assumed the full importance it later would in my life , though I already liked the place and felt at home in its coolness and dark . |
| 22 | I would try and tell you what I have been thinking ; though I once told you I cried because I was incapable of thought … . |
| 23 | Johnson , who was looking askance at Miss Beresford 's occupational therapy , said , ‘ In the scale of insignificance , I think knotting is to be reckoned next to mere idleness — ; though I once attempted to learn knotting … but I made no progress . ’ ) |
| 24 | Perhaps — though I hardly dare pen the thought — perhaps , perhaps I am beginning to glimpse or sense out of this pain and this cold and this exhaustion and this fear and this hunger the presence or the comfort of some other thing , some other force more powerful or resilient than my own weakening frame . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd wait by the commentary-box and he 'd always offer me a glass of wine , though I hardly ever touched the stuff . |
| 26 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 27 | ‘ Even though I then missed the Marseille game I know Walter will play me when needed . ’ |
| 28 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 29 | Edita Gruberova delivers a fine ‘ Una voce poco fa ’ , though I now thoroughly disapprove of soprano Rosinas . |
| 30 | Even though I now encourage my class to use any methods they like , there are still times when I wished I had not said something which could inhibit a pupil 's thinking . |