Example sentences of "though he did [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 2 | He had not been well early in the previous year , and decided to resign as Chairman , though he did remain on the Board for five more years as the Goldsmiths ' nominee . |
| 3 | Woolton was an exponent of laisser faire , Leathers a rather unsuccessful interventionist , Alexander ineffectual all round , and Cherwell what he had always been , a highly intelligent courtier to his chief , though he did succeed in driving through his pet project of hiving off atomic energy from the Ministry of Supply into what became the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 4 | Nightmares and night-time anxiety , are a regular feature of Leonard 's work , though he did remark to us , ‘ I do n't think that I was scarred by anything . ’ |
| 5 | On one occasion he ostentatiously refused a challenge from an infuriated opponent in a lawsuit , preferring to endure public humiliation rather than call out his tormentor ( though he did complain to the Commons of the breach of privilege ) , and earned the public thanks of the Society for setting such a ‘ noble and Christian ’ example . |
| 6 | And if she were dead , what had happened to her before dying did not bear thinking about ( though he did think about it , all the same ) . |
| 7 | The POW , Adolf , ended up on the cutting room floor in that shot , though he did survive in an earlier one . |
| 8 | Last year he scored 259 to make sure of the 1991 County championship , and plodded off unemotionally : though he did concede to emotion on the balcony when the victory was eventually sealed . |