Example sentences of "and although [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We struck out for Cambridge and although we made the odd wrong turn they were quickly rectified and with luck on our side we found the hotel . |
| 2 | They have investigated the source of the smoke and although they walked the tunnel they have found no explanation except the phenomenon seemed to stop in a recess under the Halifax Road . |
| 3 | They were con-men who work the black market and although they spent the whole of the next day in Irkutsk taking me to lunch , visiting a host of Siberian churches and museums and organising a trip to the opera , their interest was in valutta — hard currency — not culture . |
| 4 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |
| 5 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 6 | Laura Ashley bought substantial amounts of tweed from Cambrian Mill and although they paid the regular price , the company drew upon its charity budget to subsidize this at the rate of a pound per metre . |
| 7 | ‘ There are some initiatives going on which interest me , whereby young women who had a child when they were adolescent , and although they love the child , regret very much that they were too young , too immature , and too unsupported to care for it effectively : it 's being suggested that they should go into schools and talk to girls about the glories of motherhood at the right time , but begging them not to embark on it too young . |
| 8 | And although he produced the right paperwork , they could n't understand it . |
| 9 | Her father was only interested in his family and his business and although he took the Evening Express , only read local news . |
| 10 | His life in Cripps was dominated more by the companionship of the SCR rather than the JCR and although he recognised the stimulations of a more sophisticated company , he often confessed a certain hankering for the family life of a small hall . |
| 11 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 12 | Digby Wyatt 's earliest extant building is the Gothic Aldingham Hall , Cumbria , of 1846 to 1850 , and although he designed the Pompeian , Byzantine , English Gothic , Italian and Renaissance Courts at the re-erected Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 , and The Art Journal commented that he had ‘ in practice attached himself more heartily to the classic ’ , he felt , like Scott , that the nineteenth century should have its particular form of architecture , but unlike Scott , he thought that this should be an adaptation of the Cinquecento style . |
| 13 | From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College London , and although he influenced the earliest microscopical investigations of Joseph ( later first Baron ) Lister [ q.v. ] , |
| 14 | He conceded the hole and although he won the 35th two fours at the last saw Rafferty home . |
| 15 | Disgruntled Conservative agriculturalists and imperialists resented Bonar Law 's dropping of the ‘ food taxes ’ in the winter of 1912–13 , and although he survived the initial furore sparked by this decision it was not clear that the ill feeling had been fully dissipated or his leadership wholly secured . |
| 16 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 17 | Although the Chicago School over-used the Darwinian metaphor of the struggle for survival , and although it made the mistake of equating ‘ society ’ or ‘ community ’ with the social systems of relatively small areas , the Chicago School still has much to offer in terms of the new kind of spatial sociology which we started to develop in Chapter 1 . |
| 18 | Although it is an intense period of development and although it provides the basis of values , attitudes , and feelings — as well as darker things like repressions and obsessions — that may last a lifetime , it soon passes . |
| 19 | Do n't forget , I have lived here three months , and although I know the family to be close-fisted there can not have been much more than that . ’ |
| 20 | I found it very difficult not to push then , and although I tried the puff , puff , blow it did n't help , and I had to pant . |
| 21 | Er , Professor did say final words of aspiration , and I sha n't talk on aspirations , I was interested in it , and although I talked the empirical linguis linguisism . |
| 22 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 23 | Peter Carrington was a major loss , and although I admired the loyalty of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce I thought their resignations unnecessary . |