Example sentences of "though [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building societies in particular have been reluctant to contribute , though I was delighted to see that the Nationwide Building Society recently announced that it would be donating £345,000 to the London Money Support Unit . ’ |
| 2 | And it looks as though it was all whitewashed and . |
| 3 | Though it was willing to assist if required the government emphasized that it would play no part in the proceedings of the Convention . |
| 4 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 5 | Ruth , looking down from the upper deck , her hand clasped around Anna 's , lifted her clear soprano voice with the rest , though it was difficult to sing because of the tight aching in her throat and the tears which pricked at her eyes . |
| 6 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 7 | Though he was careful to say that the solution was not to ‘ throw money at problems ’ , Clinton is recycling such old Great Society approaches as job-training , education programmes and the like , all part of the package that enabled the Democrats in the sixties to shirk what the party advocated in 1946 , namely a full employment act . |