Example sentences of "though we [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for her pent-up fury is not disclosed , though we rather suspect it may have something to do with her father 's preference for her sister . |
| 2 | This is known as cataphora , and it is a favourite opening device of authors who begin stories and novels with an unidentified he or she , both enticing us to look further , and plunging us into the middle of a situation as though we already knew what was going on . |
| 3 | As a result , he said , ‘ in all practical terms , they are behaving as though we already had a currency union , which is defined as a zone of fixed exchange rates and free movement of capital . ’ |
| 4 | They come from India and Bangladesh and are inspired by art from all over the world , though we particularly liked the Ocean Creatures wrapping paper eight sheets for £2 featuring whales , seals and turtles . |
| 5 | Of course this sally , and the discovery of our locational ancestry opened the way to friendship , though we soon realised that we had much more in common , not least a sharp sense of humour , which we were both going to need . |
| 6 | ( We wrote the marks themselves on paper , so that these could not be changed by program , though we also kept them electronically in order to allow electronic analysis of marks . ) |
| 7 | Miss Rawlings , formerly married to Lord Wolfson , tells me : ‘ We felt strongly that young artists from all around Britain should be supported , though we also chose pieces of two established artists , Michael Craig-Martin and Boyd Webb , and also a lovely bronze by Kenneth Armitage . ’ |
| 8 | But , though we proverbially think of tossing a penny as random , even that is a physical process influenced by a multitude of circumstances — the wind , precisely how hard the penny is flicked , and so on . |
| 9 | No man , nor even a dog , a monkey or a dolphin , would be fooled quite so readily as the robin , though we too react according to habituated mental patterns . |
| 10 | There are some languages that require interpreters to which we do not have ready access , though we always make every effort to ensure that we find an interpreter who speaks the applicant 's language or at least one in which he or she is comfortable . |
| 11 | The third was Babar , though we always skipped the part where Babar 's mother is shot by the hunter , and the fourth was a sing-a-long story called The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night . |
| 12 | And though we often generalise , calling one person more or less intelligent or fearful , we know that our appreciation of these qualities is rooted in our knowledge of the context in which the intelligent action or fearful response was made , and also in the history of its development . |
| 13 | Though we often think we know ‘ who speaks ’ , we invariably find out that we are mistaken when a slip in narrative level catches us unawares . |
| 14 | Though we tacitly agreed not to tell my parents , it was difficult for me to accept . |
| 15 | He says we were never told of any side effects even though we specifically asked . |
| 16 | For me it is always the same , though we now have the added good fortune of playing live concerts and recording in the Philharmonie . |
| 17 | The NGC numbers have more or less superseded the lists compiled by William Herschel , a contemporary of Messier 's , though we still find some Herschel numbers ; for example the irregular galaxy M82 in Ursa Major ( too dim to be seen with binoculars ) is also known as NGC 3034 and as H.IV 79 , the 79th object in Herschel 's fourth catalogue . |
| 18 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 19 | Even though we never asked , I think we still have to make |
| 20 | ‘ Even though we never do see her she is mentioned . ’ |