Example sentences of "[conj] though [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The linen area was unheated , and though they were well protected from the ravages of the wind she was aware of her damp clothing chilling her skin , the rough chattering of her teeth . |
| 2 | Schools with collaborative cultures were friendly and secure places in which to work , but they were not cosy ; differences between members were openly tackled and though they were often resolved through compromise , this was not always an easy process . |
| 3 | The contract went out to competitive tender and though ours was higher priced than some they liked its performance and capability . ’ |
| 4 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 5 | ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’ |
| 6 | Sounds to me as though they 're just sell stuff , I I do n't know ! |
| 7 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 8 | There , they were brilliant and I felt as though they were just starting to work when finished . |
| 9 | " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said . |
| 10 | But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out , gazing to the ceiling deep in thought . |
| 11 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 12 | We 're behaving as though we 're already beaten . |
| 13 | No one expected to achieve anything much after lunch , so the mood was languid and light-hearted , as though we were just pretending . |
| 14 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 15 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 16 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 17 | It 's just standing there , and you take one [ garment ] from the pile and stick it on the ironing board and iron it , fold it , and put it down , take the next one — and it 's as though it 's never going to end . |
| 18 | He 's much more in his element in prometheus , which heaves and sighs as though it 's actually giving birth to fire . |
| 19 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 20 | ‘ Damian … ! ’ she whispered , saying his name as though it was the most precious sound in the world , gaining intense pleasure from it on her lips as though she was really saying , I love you , I love you . |
| 21 | More and more , Beth found herself acting as the buffer between them , and curiously enough , at times when she sought to protect him , it seemed as though she was actually having to fight her own husband . |
| 22 | For one brief moment it felt as though she was almost drowning in ecstasy , and then she felt Ross removing his lips , cursing violently under his breath as he withdrew his arms from about her body . |
| 23 | And when he bent his head , first to one breast and then the other , his lips closing over her swollen nipples , she felt as though she was almost going to die of excitement . |
| 24 | It is as though she was deliberately coaxed into that warm and shabby coffee bar by whatever saving force or spirit I can feel ever more strongly in this no longer quite so bleak habitation of mine . |
| 25 | He looked as though she was deliberately punishing him . |
| 26 | ‘ Julia , ’ she said , as though she were just waking up . |
| 27 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 28 | Had she really managed to look as though she were still holding together ? |
| 29 | At this discovery he felt as though he was really achieving something . |
| 30 | Eyes of darkest brown , ’ he continued softly , but he did n't sound as though he were amused , or teasing — rather as though he was merely making a statement of fact , which she found slightly disconcerting . |