Example sentences of "though [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder , as things turned out , that in adult life poor ‘ W. C. T. ’ , as his cousin William Jowett Titford called him , found it very difficult to convince bureaucrats that he was really called ‘ William ’ , though everyone knew him as ‘ Charles ’ , like his father . |
| 2 | He was a Henry , though everyone called him Harry . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's as though someone hates me , ’ she said , ‘ and I do n't know what I 've done to make anyone feel that way . ’ |
| 4 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 5 | Even though I knew what was going through his mind I asked a supplemental , ‘ The software does support Grey Scales does n't it ? ’ . |
| 6 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 7 | ‘ Though I knew your brother better . |
| 8 | ‘ Even though I knew there was no one there . |
| 9 | As an afterthought I have remembered that when I worked in London in the very early twenties I once went , in my lunch hour , to the Temperance Hospital and asked if I could visit a patient , though I knew it was out of visiting hours . |
| 10 | My famished brain kept throwing up the same line , and I had not the strength to control it , even though I knew it was wrong : Cymbeline Ghost-relic has returned from the Other Side : |
| 11 | Even though I knew I would soon lose him , he had such power to make me happy that I was in heaven listening to him . |
| 12 | Even though I knew I was pregnant , I kept thinking , no , I ca n't be . |
| 13 | I think they 're so pretty I just had to have one , even though I knew I would n't get much use out of it . |
| 14 | I asked , though I knew he had n't . |
| 15 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 16 | He was starting to go bald , though I knew he was only twenty-three . |
| 17 | Even though I knew she would soon be in England , I also knew that she was n't going to live with us but with my cousins in Nottingham , and I guess I was sad about that . |
| 18 | I meant it as well , even though I knew she 'd miss the hang-gliding . |
| 19 | She pressed up against me , her fingers tickling my codpiece though I knew she was after my purse . |
| 20 | I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure . |
| 21 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 22 | No one was moved to burn the place down and the teachers were not encouraged to beat the children : though I had my knuckles painfully rapped on various occasions when I had apparently failed to decode some mysterious message or other . |
| 23 | I trust you 'll find the other one to your satisfaction , though I fear it 's hardly up to the five-star standards you 're doubtless accustomed to . ’ |
| 24 | She cared for religion as little as I for politics — less , for politics painfully makes itself heard and-felt ; twice it came near to breaking up my life , even though I defied it to interest me . |
| 25 | Well yeah they 're older wiser though I mean we 're just like new |
| 26 | For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can . |
| 27 | I do n't know how David 's Mum got there because he decided not to tell her , even though I said he could call her because it 's not really fair to get married without letting her know . ’ |
| 28 | So in some way I must have passed on my fear to my children , even though I thought I was doing everything in my power to avoid doing so . |
| 29 | Even though I thought I was becoming immune to surprises from this species , what happened came as something of a shock . |
| 30 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |