Example sentences of "and though he [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy .
2 The atmosphere remained fraught , and though he may have secretly relished the animation it gave to things , he needed to settle into a quiet routine if he was going to produce good work .
3 ‘ William is my apprentice , ’ Hari said , ‘ and though he may look very young he 's a good cobbler and a great help to me . ’
4 Yet Kraal grew increasingly irritable as the autumn advanced , and though he would talk to Woil he became ill-tempered with Minch who , he said , spoke a lot but did little .
5 He was to retain the valuable regions already granted him , and though he would in the future have to share the heartlands with Lothar , still , for a last-born son , he had done rather well .
6 He 's invested his own money in the project — and though he wo n't risk his legs with snow skiing , he could n't resist donning his waterskis for the cameras …
7 In the last moments of the retreat , Eachuin Odhar had taken an arrow deep in the side of his neck , and though he could move about and gesture to organise their camp , he could n't speak .
8 The scheme the mother and this brother were plotting entailed Sien somehow , and though he could n't make head nor tail of it he feared the worst .
9 His mood turned , and though he could , off the track , retain much of his charm , on the track or at race meetings , very little of this was evident .
10 And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights
11 And though he could not stir either hand
12 My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt .
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