Example sentences of "though [pron] be [vb pp] " 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 Otherwise there is little of the ritual of the courts , though everyone is expected to stand when the tribunal members enter or leave .
6 CATHERINE As though someone 's hurt you .
7 Though I am bound to say , Signorita Maitland , that you are more beautiful than any flower . ’
8 and though I am spun away
9 Though I am forced to admit that his searches , like mine , would probably have been futile . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Though I was born in Sussex I went out to India at six months old .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 I think the British end somehow managed to start itself up — though I 'm damned if I see how . ’
19 Though I 'm tempted when you persist in playing the innocent . ’
20 ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation .
21 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 .
22 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 . ’
23 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 . ’
24 ‘ 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 .
25 A similar incident had occurred at the same spot ten days earlier , though nobody was hurt then .
26 even though she is crippled .
27 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 .
28 Even though she 's changed everything about her life and undergone surgery to become a woman … the law still says she is male
29 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 .
30 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 .
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