Example sentences of "though [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though nothing had altered , somehow the fall had shattered the ice that had temporarily walled her up . |
| 2 | [ PC. 2. ] got on the radio to ask for assistance even though nothing had happened . |
| 3 | It was not until 1960 that the gargantuan task of demolishing the attached asylum was undertaken and Forston Manor returned to its original self as though nothing had happened . |
| 4 | ‘ He has agreed to act as though nothing had happened , ’ Mr Browning said . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not the only one to have seen Charlotte , ’ Emily went on as though nothing had happened . |
| 6 | Everyone else sits down and resumes work as though nothing had happened . |
| 7 | When we reached the door Mum called back , ‘ Good afternoon Captain ’ , as though nothing had happened . |
| 8 | Incredibly , Flashman then posed for pictures with his wife , smiling as though nothing had happened . |
| 9 | The eggs simply plopped out in front of the host bird , who carried on incubating any remaining eggs as though nothing had happened . |
| 10 | After its financial disaster in 1720 the South Sea Company had pulled itself together and had tried to trade with South America as though nothing had happened . |
| 11 | Several years ago , my tropical fish tank suffered the dreaded overnight powercut , and while all the other fish perished , the angelfish was still swimming around , somewhat lethargically , as though nothing had happened . |
| 12 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 13 | Cobalt got up from his chair as though nothing had happened to put him off his stroke . |
| 14 | Her mother was talking to the director as though nothing had happened . |
| 15 | His gaze returned to her face , as though nothing had happened . |
| 16 | Undeterred , Betty rushed out la-la-ing the tune and the girls carried on as though nothing had happened until they were reconnected and finished the performance beautifully in true MEDAU spirit . |
| 17 | I thought about it calmly , still standing there as though nothing had passed through my mind but the continual computation guiding the kite , and I thought it seemed reasonable . |
| 18 | But the station felt safer than it used to , though nothing had changed except Dot herself . |
| 19 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 20 | For the next few days — for as long as it takes — you just continue your life as though nothing has happened . |
| 21 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're behaving as though nothing has happened ! ’ |
| 23 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 24 | Everywhere there was evidence of abandoned normality as though everyone had put down what they had been doing , and then simply vanished ; half finished cups of coffee , dishevelled beds , games of scrabble and cards laid out , play suspended . |
| 25 | ‘ He will be nursing a secret desire to try to make amends , even though everyone has reassured him that these things happen . |
| 26 | He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart . |
| 27 | He felt as though someone had kicked his leg away from him , and he crashed to the floor . |
| 28 | ‘ So simple , yet so striking — ’ And then her breath caught in her throat as though someone had kicked her . |
| 29 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 30 | It looked as though someone had spilled a can of spaghetti and had to make some sense of it . |