Example sentences of "although [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the small screen was an intricate keyboard system , although nothing Rex had n't seen before . |
| 2 | I were n't doing it all although I sort of organized it . |
| 3 | Although my fruit cakes are nice and moist , they crumble easily and are difficult to cut . |
| 4 | As he has written , ‘ I steeled myself to drive that fast lap in 1975 although my brain kept telling me it was sheer stupidity . |
| 5 | No North London native could navigate the route with more speed and certainty than I do although my journey takes me , of necessity , from one plateglass shop window to another , and then via the rear-view mirrors of thirty-nine different cars , vans and buses . |
| 6 | Although my work as CBC Production Manager kept me at a desk rather than on the production floor , I was occasionally able to produce plays . |
| 7 | The Lord has given me a heart for the Filipino people , although my work here finds me alongside so many other people . |
| 8 | ‘ I must tell you what I 've heard , although my life is in danger if I do . |
| 9 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 10 | I 'd love to see that error put right tomorrow but , although my heart is with Rangers , Leeds are a mighty outfit and I think the force will be with them at Elland Road . |
| 11 | Unfortunately I dived in one day without realising that the pool had been emptied ( I am short-sighted ) , and although my head turned out to be harder than the pool bottom , it seemed to dampen my enthusiasm for the sport . |
| 12 | I found myself lying to her , although my lies seemed to me to represent the truth as soon as I was out of Aisha 's house . |
| 13 | Although my income was unchanged , money ceased to be a problem , a worry , a source of guilt and anxiety , and became a reliable friend . |
| 14 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 15 | There has also been a huge recovery of confidence in construction material shares as RMC and Redland , although my favourite remains Blue Circle at 250p because of its involvement in the home improvement business through Armitage Shanks . |
| 16 | Although my master hated travelling , he did not hesitate to do as she requested . |
| 17 | I worked out in a gym three times a week but when my fitness was tested for the BBC 's The Fitness Programme ( which , embarrassingly , I was presenting ) , it was discovered that although my biceps were passable , my heart and lungs were unaffected by my muscle conditioning . |
| 18 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 19 | Although my efforts would make Mr Walt Disney cringe , they were popular enough with the children of Navan , and I was soon handing out picture after picture — all free , courtesy of Navan shopping centre . |
| 20 | Although my elder two sons are experts in Streetcleaner Two , Sonic the Warthog and Attack of the Psychopathic Hippopotami , they live in Glasgow , where fast reaction times and knowledge of weird mutant creatures is necessary for survival on the no-mean-city streets , where the drivers are worse than the megabytten monsters . |
| 21 | Although my toys are an important collection , I am wary of them being looked on as investments or high-price commodities like works of art . |
| 22 | In fact I was n't particularly anxious , although my diary is full of the usual teenage moans and groans about the impossibility of absorbing any more information , and the exams themselves are described as ‘ foul ’ , ‘ really foul ’ , or , at best , ‘ not very nice ’ . |
| 23 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 24 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ says Management B , ‘ I have n't really raised my prices ; I have actually produced what is a new and better article , so much better than those of my competitors that , although my price is much above theirs , I have full order books and the retailers tell me they are accumulating waiting lists . ’ |
| 25 | Although my emotions were engaged , or perhaps because they were engaged , a flash of revelation lit my intellect . |
| 26 | Although my history was vague on the point , I believed that Victor was — in this development as elsewhere — some decades ahead of his time . |
| 27 | Although my churchgoing is confined usually to weddings and funerals , there are times when I am certain that one guardian angel at least has been detailed to watch over my welfare . |
| 28 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 29 | Still unaware that barn owls are notoriously difficult , I thought that although my experience with Barny had been unsuccessful , to say the least , I should stick to the same breed . |
| 30 | Although my subject is medieval history , we used to read and discuss all history from biblical times onward . |