Example sentences of "but [adv] though [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even though they made the ideal start yesterday , taking a third minute lead through David McAnulty , they had no answer to Holywood 's class . |
| 2 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 3 | But even though they guaranteed to provide every customer who had allowed three quarters of an hour er for a meal , you know , you would have to lay down in very great deal would n't you ? |
| 4 | Funny , but even though she knew Delaney , Lawton and Forster were engaging Mahon — she could hear gun fire — the empty shadowy corridors of the place gave her the creeps . |
| 5 | But even though he strives to protect his privacy , Craig 's still larger than life at work , always joking , teasing and larking about . |
| 6 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 7 | The brochure said that the Pyramid of the Sun was over sixty metres high , larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt , and the Street of the Dead more than three kilometres long , but even though it contained a plan , as well as photographs , I was still not prepared for the colossal dimensions of the place . |
| 8 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 9 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |