Example sentences of "though [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow . |
| 2 | ‘ To your beauty , ’ he said , though my looks at the time were nothing to write home about , ‘ coupled with the birthday of the King of Bulgaria . ’ |
| 3 | Durrell took a slug of whisky and broke into an immediate ‘ I 'm not able to begin ‘ ta / praise the wondrous Araminta /I would like to say with flourish /what kind thoughts of her I nourish /A tangle though my thoughts get inta / describing love as Araminta ’ . |
| 4 | Those arms were my arms — even though my arms were still lazily resting among the rainbow petals . |
| 5 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 6 | There must have been dozens of them in our back garden by the time I was seven , though my parents had no idea they were living next to a bird cemetery . |
| 7 | I was born in Oxford , even though my parents were living in London . |
| 8 | I blew over its mouth and nose to revive it even though my tears were rolling onto its face . |
| 9 | The title is imitated from the delightful Ivy and Stevie ( about Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith by Kay Dick , though my materials are very different from hers and therefore the pattern that I shall construct from them must also be very different . |
| 10 | The ‘ magic ’ medium in this endearing space-hopper device is Siporax , claimed to work wonders in nitrate-removal , though my levels stuck resolutely at 30ppm and all I could seen in terms of visual improvement was a better class of blanketweed : sort of lusher , nar mean ? |
| 11 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 12 | Does she accept that it is impossible to explain to them why patients who are haemophiliacs are eligible for compensation but they are not — even though my constituents have the same condition , life expectancy and financial pressures ? |
| 13 | But though my spirits were high , the shadow of that man , who liked to be called the Ángel of Death , travelled with me , the memory of his good looks , his well-oiled virility , above all Iris Sunderby 's apparent infatuation , constantly there in my mind . |
| 14 | I felt as though my eyes were popping out . |
| 15 | The doctor sent us back to work even though my eyes were really bad . |
| 16 | I would not lay hands on the Lady Eleanor , even though my eyes … |
| 17 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 18 | Ahmed : When I joined the organization in March 1983 I had the impression that though my colleagues could deal with my ethnicity as a factor in our relationship , they were rather baffled about how to incorporate my sexuality into our work relationship . |
| 19 | Though my brothers too enjoyed shooting , they preferred hunting , and my mother , who had hunted in Ireland before she went to Abyssinia , now took it up again . |
| 20 | ‘ Though my sisters and I were never given pocket money . |
| 21 | When I opened my mouth to speak on this topic it was as though my lips were sewn together with great stitches in the flesh , and my tongue would not move in my mouth . |
| 22 | It is well known that Homoeopathic remedies are very dilute in their preparation though their effects can not be explained so simply . |
| 23 | These may be entirely contained within the borders of a single country even though their effects are transnational . |
| 24 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |
| 25 | Analogies between these are themselves important , though their dangers have been pointed out . |
| 26 | Other groups of reptiles were not exterminated at this time , even though their fossils may be found in rocks as old as those that yield dinosaurs and the other spectacular , extinct groups . |
| 27 | Even without their two biggest forwards , Alan Watt and Shade Munro , GH-K competed well in the forward exchanges where brothers Fergus and Murray Wallace excelled , though their efforts were matched by the whole-hearted David McIvor . |
| 28 | ‘ Tasso keeps them apart , though their fingers meet on the pillows of his pastoral . |
| 29 | The most dramatic finding would be the discovery of characteristics common to the actions of all great fast bowlers , even though their actions appear to be totally individual . |
| 30 | Though their functions were only 200 yards apart , the thorny issue of who will attend the royal wedding has caused a huge gulf between them . |