Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] though i " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
| 3 | Richard said , carrying on his own monologue as though I had n't spoken . |
| 4 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 5 | Billingsley rephrased his insolent question as though I had not understood the first version . |
| 6 | I quite like maths but I do n't like the teacher cos though I like maths I just do n't like the lessons . |
| 7 | By the time I was 16 , I was winning major contests , amassing a few quid in the bank as a part-time model and walking as though I had a brush handle up my arse . |
| 8 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
| 9 | It is a struggle Ellen and no mistake and though I have been thrifty as mother brought us all up to be and the rent is paid for the next year I am hard put to pay wages and still eat and keep warm . |
| 10 | He runs the whole organization as though I did n't exist . ’ |
| 11 | When I see you I get a clenched feeling in the gut as though I 've been punched . |
| 12 | There is the possibility that though I myself would not be justified in making different claims , another person might perhaps be justified in saying that yesterday I did not know , while today I do . |
| 13 | my gloom and though I Do n't want |
| 14 | Instead of sheltering me you turn to squabbling amongst yourselves , haggling over the cost of your own father freedom as though I were an ox brought to market . |
| 15 | Discussions about my future took place behind closed doors , and sometimes in my presence as though I was n't there . |
| 16 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 17 | They are my only remaining close family and though I wo n't hang on to them I have worried about feeling lonely . |
| 18 | She expects it every time and though I still feel sorry for her , I do n't fancy her . |
| 19 | It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm . |