Example sentences of "though [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was sufficiently idiotic to love with a longing that weakened me as though I was bleeding . |
| 32 | ‘ But maybe he does , ’ Thessy insisted sadly , and both he and Ellen stared reproachfully at me as though I was risking all their future prosperity . |
| 33 | I do n't like to do it myself — it 'd look as though I was pushing my niece forward . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 35 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 36 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 37 | He said : ‘ It came out looking as though I was telling them to stuff the season of goodwill , not buy the children any presents and put a bullet in the turkey . |
| 38 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 39 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 40 | It is n't as though I was killing cats or fieldmice or goldfish or anything . |
| 41 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 42 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 43 | Not that she believes in anything , religion and so on — and nor do I of course , though I was brought up a little as a Catholic — but she goes by omens , auguri . |
| 44 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 45 | Though I was floundering , I did not much care . |
| 46 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 47 | I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour , as though I was doing something morally wrong . |
| 48 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 49 | We proceeded in the manner of what 's known in film terms as a romp , though I was feeling far from rompish . |
| 50 | I felt as though I were seducing her all over again . |
| 51 | ‘ All right , then , ’ he softly prompted , as though I were speaking lines , ‘ go on . ’ |
| 52 | … and if this sounds as though I were conducting a tutorial , then I make no apology . |
| 53 | He listened , nodding , as though I were recounting |
| 54 | The exhibition was crowded and I felt that , really , this was for Hungarians , as though I were intruding on a private grief . |
| 55 | It happened in a flash , although in retrospect everything seemed to occur in slow motion , as though I were watching from another planet . |
| 56 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 57 | I ca n't explain it , but it was as though I were transported outside of myself , on the verge of grasping the significance of being . |
| 58 | It was as though I were sitting in a movie and my actions were flashing in front of my eyes . |
| 59 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 60 | It 's not as though I 'm stopping … |