Example sentences of "though she did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , though she did not want to , again she felt a shiver of excitement . |
| 2 | There was nothing she could do to resist him , though she did not want to resist . |
| 3 | Kenneth Bruce then handed over £125 for the furniture , jewellery and other household items even though she did not want to sell them . |
| 4 | Charity supposed that there could be at least an element of truth in that , though she did not feel comforted . |
| 5 | She knew they mated for life , and though she did not think much of married bliss , yet she approved of constancy . |
| 6 | This she well understood , though she did not think much of ‘ Abroad ’ . |
| 7 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 8 | the other hand he accepted the ministrations of Rosalba with pointed gratitude , looking up at her when it was her turn to bend over him , though she did not need to bend from the waist , wand-like as her sister , but rather leaned her plump body forward to adjust some dish , brush off some crumbs with a dithery movement that suggested — again he felt a stab of pity , followed by impatience — that her own body was always in her way . |
| 9 | Dorothea allowed herself to make a pot of tea , in her dressing gown , and carry it back upstairs , to enjoy over the newspaper and any letters there might be , though she did not allow herself to return to bed . |
| 10 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 11 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 12 | Breeze knew , though she did not say so , that a first novel does n't usually bring in much ‘ boodle ’ ; but she thanked Gay all the same . |
| 13 | In Corcoran v Anderton ( 1980 ) 71 Cr App R 104 ( DC ) , there was robbery where a handbag was tugged away from the victim , even though she did not lose control . |
| 14 | ‘ Come along ! ’ snapped Miss Harker in the most understanding snap it was possible to make — she was acutely aware of Prentice though she did not look directly at him . |
| 15 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |
| 16 | She did come top , though she did not try and hoped she would n't . |
| 17 | Loopy Lil stared round at the destruction with a look of hopelessness as though she did not understand how it had happened . |
| 18 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 19 | ‘ No ! ’ said Ellie , almost too emphatically , afraid that even though she did not know her own mind , he might withdraw his offer . |
| 20 | This banal observation astounded her , though she did not know why . |
| 21 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 22 | Though she did not know it , for Clare there had been no choice except between a swift or a lingering death . |
| 23 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |