Example sentences of "though [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 2 | I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door . |
| 3 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 4 | That afternoon I meant to search the Bible for information , though I knew little of it . |
| 5 | My letters were now addressed not from the Middle East Forces , but from the British North African Forces and , moreover , headed 137/166 Newfoundland Regiment , R.A. This quite confused me for I had never heard of Canadians in North Africa — even though I knew that Newfoundland was not really Canada . |
| 6 | Even though I knew she would soon be in England , I also knew that she was n't going to live with us but with my cousins in Nottingham , and I guess I was sad about that . |
| 7 | Though I knew a remarkable plumber with only a stump for a hand who worked for Uncle Ted , I could n't see Changez decorating Anwar 's shop with one arm . |
| 8 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 9 | I asked , though I knew he had n't . |
| 10 | He had hoped to impress her , and , though I knew this was the wrong way to go about it , since she was always embarrassed by emotional arguments , when she replied in a stiff , rather guarded way , I was deeply hurt on his behalf . |
| 11 | I suppose the heat had made me edgy : though I knew that to ask for money as a loan was the only way she could keep her dignity , I held an angry conversation with her in my mind . |
| 12 | ‘ Even though I knew there was no one there . |
| 13 | As an afterthought I have remembered that when I worked in London in the very early twenties I once went , in my lunch hour , to the Temperance Hospital and asked if I could visit a patient , though I knew it was out of visiting hours . |
| 14 | And sometimes I felt he was different , and had changed , even though I knew people changed all the time and people our age changed faster than most . |
| 15 | ‘ Though I knew your brother better . |
| 16 | Even though I knew I would soon lose him , he had such power to make me happy that I was in heaven listening to him . |
| 17 | Even though I knew I was pregnant , I kept thinking , no , I ca n't be . |
| 18 | My famished brain kept throwing up the same line , and I had not the strength to control it , even though I knew it was wrong : Cymbeline Ghost-relic has returned from the Other Side : |
| 19 | She looked alarmed , and even though I knew the significance of this rite , because Nour had told me , for a moment I shared her confusion , her small anxiety at the thought of the violence of that long-past nuptial night . |
| 20 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 21 | I think they 're so pretty I just had to have one , even though I knew I would n't get much use out of it . |
| 22 | Even though I knew what was going through his mind I asked a supplemental , ‘ The software does support Grey Scales does n't it ? ’ . |
| 23 | Granny , they said , was a good Christian woman , though I knew like a flame burns true that she was perfect with no riders , the empress of her acres , her livestock . |
| 24 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
| 25 | I meant it as well , even though I knew she 'd miss the hang-gliding . |
| 26 | She pressed up against me , her fingers tickling my codpiece though I knew she was after my purse . |
| 27 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 28 | He was starting to go bald , though I knew he was only twenty-three . |
| 29 | Even though I come from Cuba and have naturally dark skin , it 's very dry so I always carry my Must de Cartier body lotion with me . |
| 30 | I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure . |