Example sentences of "though [pron] [verb] [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 2 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |
| 3 | Now that she was back in one , it felt as though she 'd never been outside . |
| 4 | Juliet did n't sleep well , and when she arrived on Melrose next morning it was almost as though she had n't been away . |
| 5 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 6 | The two other new jobs went to people who could hardly be described as outsiders , even though they had not been either Founders or members of the Executive Committee . |
| 7 | I was sad to see the martins go , even though they had often been very noisy at night and kept me awake . |
| 8 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 9 | Lillywhite recovered after crashing just after the Horseshoe Pass climb at Llangollen at 73 miles though it had not been all plain sailing for the Banana team . |
| 10 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 11 | In his opinion , though it had never been openly expressed , she was little more than a flibbertigibbet whose thoughts rarely ranged further afield than the next gratification . |
| 12 | Erm but this this this doorway , does this doorway look as though it 's always been here ? |
| 13 | McGrath , returning after being forgiven for failing to turn up for the Irish trek to Albania two weeks ago , rewarded Jack Charlton 's faith in him with a goal and a swagger as though he had never been away . |
| 14 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 15 | ‘ Head boy ’ in the school of ‘ 93 is opener Stephen Mann , one of the longest-serving players with the Section Three club — even though he 's only been there three years ! |