Example sentences of "[subord] though [pron] [vb past] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 2 | And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way . |
| 3 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 4 | She decided to treat herself to a fig from the bowl and found its skin still damp , as though it had been recently washed . |
| 5 | Over in the corner behind a gigantic desk sat this old bird who looked as though she had been there since Marie Stopes was pre-pubescent . |
| 6 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |