Example sentences of "though [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All the while I stood listening and Frankie sat calmly on the sofa reading his comic as though nothing was happening . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains . |
| 6 | It felt as though someone was pulling my lifeline away from me and I was flailing around , trying to grab hold of it . |
| 7 | Though I was born in Sussex I went out to India at six months old . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even though I was earning only –20 a week ( before tax ) at that time , I would have paid to run in that race . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | I was sufficiently idiotic to love with a longing that weakened me as though I was bleeding . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I do n't like to do it myself — it 'd look as though I was pushing my niece forward . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 … . |
| 20 | It is n't as though I was killing cats or fieldmice or goldfish or anything . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Though I was floundering , I did not much care . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour , as though I was doing something morally wrong . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We proceeded in the manner of what 's known in film terms as a romp , though I was feeling far from rompish . |
| 30 | A similar incident had occurred at the same spot ten days earlier , though nobody was hurt then . |