Example sentences of "though she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles is touchingly done — a frail unpublished poet kept going by his wife and son ( the wife is called Vivien , presumably by design , though she is no copy of the first Mrs Eliot ) , their household a breath of fresh air in the conniving , phrase-making milieu to which Charles clings . |
| 2 | Though she has had little education , her vocabulary is excellent : she fountains out ideas and observations at breathless speed . |
| 3 | Ellen O ‘ Malley , though she had long retired , was a wonderful teacher too . |
| 4 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |
| 5 | She rose on to her knees and looked as though she was praying , but her eyes were fully open and the clenched look on her remarkably white face with its mannish black eyebrows suddenly reminded him of her dead mother . |
| 6 | Her voice sounded mechanical as though she were drawing a shutter across her pains and fears . |
| 7 | And though she would never admit to it , I was sure there were moments , however fleeting and however infrequent , when she wished she 'd been with the Church of England , rather than the Roman Church . |
| 8 | Having won the Australian Open and now the French it means that Seles is on a Grand Slam roll , though she swiftly pointed out that Wimbledon 's grass might be her downfall . |
| 9 | Though she was a performer of indisputable talent , one was none the less left with a nagging impression that overarching each of her individual characteristics was another role , one she played to the hilt : that of the grande dame , the First Lady of the American cinema , the Duse of the double-feature . |
| 10 | Emma-Jane Mac , in marvellous form throughout the week , looked as though she might beat his time until Everest Oyster stopped at the penultimate fence . |
| 11 | For Mrs Thatcher , the timing of President de Klerk 's announcement in the week before the Commonwealth conference is helpful , though she would have had no difficulty in resisting pressure there for further sanctions . |
| 12 | In inviting her Rachel had proclaimed the absolute acceptability to her of her daughter even though she knew that Rachel did not feel this . |
| 13 | Occasionally she could see a gleam in Rachel 's eye , as though she might suddenly ask him if his intentions were honourable , but for the first time in her life she learned to be grateful for her mother 's good manners . |
| 14 | Another tangled virgin called on her for help against a dragon , called on her though she had thought that her time was past and the dragons had all departed . |
| 15 | Phoebe , in fairness , could not have known that the maths teacher , shamed in public , should take to hating Maggie with a spiteful glee , though she would probably not have cared if she had . |
| 16 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 17 | Even though she had learned so recently that this was not the authentic voice of her mother , the intellectual knowledge had changed nothing , nothing , and perhaps it never did . |
| 18 | She said , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ as though she meant it . |
| 19 | Quite suddenly she felt a generous relief , as though she 'd given science and herself new hope of heaven , and set out through the gathering dark , home , home across the dragon-haunted park . |
| 20 | She was able to organize her day so that even though she seemed to be less harassed than Maggie the meals were always delicious and on time . |
| 21 | Rose knew many of the people on the platform even though she had spent half her life in Scotland and she responded to each greeting with warmth , careful to watch that her friendliness did not grate on Moran . |
| 22 | It 's nice for me , even though she 's sad . |
| 23 | She do n't sleep too well , and she gets bad dreams even though she takes pills and that to help her sleep . |
| 24 | Even though she tries to hide it , I can see she 's pretty upset by the letter . |
| 25 | Annie was real clever — even though she was only a little kid , like . |
| 26 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 27 | Though she never lived to see the day , six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns . |
| 28 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 29 | But she does n't really look as though she 's broken loose . |
| 30 | The girl from Tampa , Florida , has signed a long-term deal with Mark McCormack 's International Management Group even though she is still three months away from making her senior debut . |