Example sentences of "though [pers pn] was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though I was earning only –20 a week ( before tax ) at that time , I would have paid to run in that race . |
| 2 | I was sufficiently idiotic to love with a longing that weakened me as though I was bleeding . |
| 3 | ‘ But maybe he does , ’ Thessy insisted sadly , and both he and Ellen stared reproachfully at me as though I was risking all their future prosperity . |
| 4 | I do n't like to do it myself — it 'd look as though I was pushing my niece forward . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 6 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 7 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It came out looking as though I was telling them to stuff the season of goodwill , not buy the children any presents and put a bullet in the turkey . |
| 9 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 11 | It is n't as though I was killing cats or fieldmice or goldfish or anything . |
| 12 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 13 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 14 | Though I was floundering , I did not much care . |
| 15 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 16 | I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour , as though I was doing something morally wrong . |
| 17 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 18 | We proceeded in the manner of what 's known in film terms as a romp , though I was feeling far from rompish . |
| 19 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 20 | From this close , he could turn her blood to water , her brain to cotton wool , and he was , even though she was trying hard to fight it . |
| 21 | Maybe she could have handled that a little more tactfully instead of sounding as though she was throwing her weight around . |
| 22 | Looked as though she was bleeding . |
| 23 | Though she was passing through what has been called her first industrial revolution , there was as yet little to show for it in the landscape . |
| 24 | Though she was wishing that , after all , she 'd taken a seat , for she suspected he was rather enjoying letting her stew in her own juice . |
| 25 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 26 | With an effort Shannon pulled herself up to her full five-feet-three-inch height , desperately striving for some sort of dignity , even though she was shivering all over . |
| 27 | It was as though she was accruing power over against Edward 's earlier impossible behaviour , against my possible disbelief . |
| 28 | And so on for several more lines , and all to say he meant to finish with Claire , even though she was expecting his child . |
| 29 | Then she forced a smile , and said , ‘ Of course , Damien : and proffered a cheek , averted as though she was expecting a blow . |
| 30 | ‘ You are a nice person , ’ said Dot , though she was beginning to feel unsure about it . |