Example sentences of "though [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though me an ’ Jerry cai n't cut this marriage business ourselves , well , we definitely recommend it . ’ |
| 2 | Though no-one was prepared to admit that Roman Catholics had got the better of the argument , some Protestants felt a certain dissatisfaction with an afterlife in which all earnest endeavour , for better or worse , was at an end . |
| 3 | It is going , perhaps , less strongly than it might if the techniques that the laboratory uses for dating pottery , wood and other materials — though no-one has yet found a method of dating metals — were not available . |
| 4 | She was aware , though no-one spoke , that for much of the time Ernest and Charlotte were also awake . |
| 5 | Earlier Davies , 55 , claimed he was fired because executives feared evidence might be produced that he was an arms dealer even though no-one believed such a thing . |
| 6 | In rugby , as in most aspects of life in South Africa , we have agreed to let go of the old ways and leaders even though no-one can know where the new ways will lead us — or where the new leaders will come from . |
| 7 | Though no-one can deny Sybase 's recent figures are n't fabulous , Informix is doing well , too , and Oracle is still several times as large . |
| 8 | Though no-one can deny that Sybase 's recent figures are fabulous , Informix is doing well , too , and Oracle is still several times as large . |
| 9 | COSI is thought to be part of a much broader technology effort now coming together that will likely involve IBM too in some way , though no-one we spoke to was prepared to elaborate further for fear of upsetting delicate negotiations . |
| 10 | He loved the sound of his own singing , though no-one else did . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've always argued — though no-one seems to want to listen — that the correct context in which to understand the attack on The Satanic Verses is that of attacks on Arab intellectuals throughout Islamic countries . |
| 13 | A decision is likely to be reached at the meeting of the International Rugby Football Board in April , though no-one at the board 's Bristol HQ was available to comment yesterday . |
| 14 | Though no-one has been injured , the incidents are potentially damaging to the SNP which has not ruled out civil disobedience as part of its campaign against water privatisation . |
| 15 | These schools are protestant , though nothing else is perhaps to lie expected when protestant — loyalist teachers teach protestant — loyalist children . |
| 16 | Everything possible must be done , he wrote , and yet it must be as though nothing had been done . |
| 17 | It looked as though nothing would ever shake it . |
| 18 | There were one or two things that may concern them ( the scratchy sound of the orchestra for one ) , though nothing that should deter them from tuning in , for the singing was generally fine , with particularly good contributions from the basses ( Michael George and Peter Harvey ) , the soprano Nancy Argenta , the tenor Andrew Murgatroyd , the ‘ cantor ’ Nicholas Robertson and the choir itself , here expanded , of course , to The Twenty . |
| 19 | [ PC. 2. ] got on the radio to ask for assistance even though nothing had happened . |
| 20 | As for the Gujerati joint family it looks as though nothing can save it now . |
| 21 | It was not until 1960 that the gargantuan task of demolishing the attached asylum was undertaken and Forston Manor returned to its original self as though nothing had happened . |
| 22 | But the station felt safer than it used to , though nothing had changed except Dot herself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He has agreed to act as though nothing had happened , ’ Mr Browning said . |
| 25 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 26 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 27 | Sensing an improvement of story , Kent agreed even though nothing of distaste was uncovered . |
| 28 | The base from which this system grew was limited , especially in rural areas , though nothing like as deprived as that which faced Frelimo in Mozambique at independence . |
| 29 | ‘ I am not the only one to have seen Charlotte , ’ Emily went on as though nothing had happened . |
| 30 | Moving at top speed , the animal positively flings itself along and then , just as suddenly , comes to rest as though nothing strange has occurred . |