Example sentences of "though [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Police worked with the Borough Council which owns the garages ; many were found to have had extra locks fitted , even though no-one 's named as a tenant .
2 , Francis ( c. 1583–1658 ) , goldsmith , MP , and regicide , was probably born in London , though nothing is known of his early life .
3 It is possible , too , that in striking the rock as he was told to do in Exodus 17 Moses this time has further infringed the divine command , though nothing was said explicitly about him not using his rod in that way .
4 Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose .
5 All the while I stood listening and Frankie sat calmly on the sofa reading his comic as though nothing was happening .
6 When the fiddler leading the dancing stopped playing and asked what was going on , he was ordered to carry on , as though nothing was happening .
7 Otherwise there is little of the ritual of the courts , though everyone is expected to stand when the tribunal members enter or leave .
8 There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it .
9 CATHERINE As though someone 's hurt you .
10 He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains .
11 It felt as though someone was pulling my lifeline away from me and I was flailing around , trying to grab hold of it .
12 Though I am bound to say , Signorita Maitland , that you are more beautiful than any flower . ’
13 Though I am resigning myself as far as possible to the will of God , you will surely find it quite human and natural that my tears almost prevent me from writing …
14 My only rather weighty problem is the fact that I speak very little French though I am learning , both at French lessons and at my Medau classes .
15 and though I am spun away
16 It takes some nerve , and it seems as though I am eradicating what I have , but the white ‘ sinks ’ and through practice it is possible to judge the correct strength .
17 I feel as though I am starting to write a new story in the book of Giorgio Armani . ’
18 ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’
19 Though I am forced to admit that his searches , like mine , would probably have been futile . ’
20 Even though I am saying it myself , I think it 's true .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 I feel a lively lump inside of me and a need to keep it vital ; to keep on running though I am panting and sweating like a sore animal ; to encase it in life , to keep it moving .
24 The driver is that , even though I am suffering , it adds merit to what I do — i.e. I will stand rather than sit , I will struggle through alone rather than ask for help .
25 So please keep our friendship as strong as ever , though I am losing the power to give it outward expression .
26 If , when I describe the writer-self , it sounds as though I am describing a baby , that is entirely intentional .
27 Though I was born in Sussex I went out to India at six months old .
28 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 .
29 Even though I was earning only –20 a week ( before tax ) at that time , I would have paid to run in that race .
30 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 ) .
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