Example sentences of "though i know [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though I knew I would soon lose him , he had such power to make me happy that I was in heaven listening to him . |
| 2 | I think they 're so pretty I just had to have one , even though I knew I would n't get much use out of it . |
| 3 | Even though I knew she would soon be in England , I also knew that she was n't going to live with us but with my cousins in Nottingham , and I guess I was sad about that . |
| 4 | I meant it as well , even though I knew she 'd miss the hang-gliding . |
| 5 | And even though I know I 'll be there to support her , I ca n't do anything to help her , and for a man to admit that to himself is really hard . |
| 6 | I was so lonely for him I could almost have believed that he did , though I know I must n't . ’ |
| 7 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 8 | I know I must finish clearing up the lawn , but , before doing so , I decide to telephone Auntie to come over on her bike even though I know it will take her an hour to get here from Hambledown . |