Example sentences of "though [pers pn] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though I am bound to say , Signorita Maitland , that you are more beautiful than any flower . ’ |
| 2 | and though I am spun away |
| 3 | Though I am forced to admit that his searches , like mine , would probably have been futile . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps the most wonderful place on earth ( though I am told on good authority that the souvenir shop at Graceland takes some beating ) has to be Niagara falls . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that she had a secret , ironic intention , but I doubt it : she wished to give souvenirs to a number of people , and that there should be no cause for jealousy between them — though I am told that jealousy arose . |
| 6 | Though I was born in Sussex I went out to India at six months old . |
| 7 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 8 | The cast was rather good , featuring Bill Nighy and his floppy blond hair and a very svelte-looking Charlotte Cornwell , though I was irritated by the unsympathetic little-and-large duo at the centre , with Janet McTeer towering above the tubby little Imelda Staunton ( as I recall , the heroine of the book hunted alone ) . |
| 9 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think the British end somehow managed to start itself up — though I 'm damned if I see how . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Though I 'm tempted when you persist in playing the innocent . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation . |
| 15 | He do n't clear mine even though I 'm finished , but when he goes past I ask if I can have a lend of his dishcloth to wipe my fingers . |
| 16 | You never quite know what they do or where they go in winter , though I 'm told Froggy had a sister in the Birmingham area . ’ |
| 17 | He came out with some good one-liners , though I 'm told that his agent employs a script-writer to cobble up these spontaneous flashes of wit . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The cops suspected of killing the two old guys have been suspended but not arrested , even though I 'm told there 's a suspicion that murder is involved . |
| 19 | even though she is crippled . |
| 20 | The Queen Mother is of course impeccably bred , though she 's failed to make it to the last 3 Chelsea Flower Shows and looks as if she 'll remain at home again this year . |
| 21 | Even though she 's changed everything about her life and undergone surgery to become a woman … the law still says she is male |
| 22 | And though she 's spent a lot of time onstage talking about how pretty she is , it 's only quite recently she started to believe it herself . |
| 23 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |
| 24 | It 's a great feeling when a wild animal shows you affection , but even though she was born in captivity she 'll always be a wild creature with the instincts of a killer . ’ |
| 25 | Tiny though she was compared with her assailant , she fought like a wildcat . |
| 26 | She was glad to reach the door of the Seven Stars where she could rest the bag , though she was screwed up with fear that Garty might pop out of some alley , or Samson erupt like a volcano from the bowels of the tavern . |
| 27 | Her accent is gentler than the others , and her words are clipped as though she was schooled in England as child , though I know she was n't . |
| 28 | Yeah , , so erm , I 've got to get some medicine for all of us in a minute , put the prescription in , but erm , you know , she 's had it really for a week like , even though she was treated for thrush |
| 29 | Lucenzo was smiling for a special reason , though she was darned if she knew why . |
| 30 | Though she was dressed , her long fair hair was still in pigtails , the way she wore it at night . |