Example sentences of "but although [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 2 | She thanked them for their efforts but although they waited for a tip it was not forthcoming , so they went off grumbling . |
| 3 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 4 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 5 | But although he toyed with it , Mr Broadhurst had no patience with the search for the sophic hydrolith . |
| 6 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 7 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 8 | But although he talked of acting as a craft , he took no trouble over it . ’ |
| 9 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 10 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |