Example sentences of "though [pron] knew that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lack of information about availability in Northern Ireland , even though everyone knew that the situation was serious . |
| 2 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In inviting her Rachel had proclaimed the absolute acceptability to her of her daughter even though she knew that Rachel did not feel this . |
| 7 | She died because she took a short cut across waste ground even though she knew that the murderer was at large in that area . |
| 8 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 9 | Though she knew that her father travelled to Switzerland , she had had no idea that he was so well acquainted with the Princesse 's household . |
| 10 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 11 | 1 Where do we first learn about Auntie 's excellent eye-sight ? 2 Where do we first learn that Auntie can see into the future ? 3 How do we know that Auntie did not see the fire at the office block where she used to work ? 4 What exactly did Auntie foresee on the last afternoon of her life ? 5 Why did Auntie save Billy 's life , even though she knew that she herself would die ? |
| 12 | The basement cattery seemed to her a sinister place , though she knew that the animals were most lovingly tended by Miss Pettigrew . |
| 13 | Almost as though she knew that Matey was thinking about her , McAllister looked up and said , ‘ I would never have thought that I would enjoy knitting so much , and the ladies ’ sewing circle , too . ’ |
| 14 | But , though she knew that , she could n't help it , her insides had turned to jelly . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't see why I should , ’ he replied , but , to make her heart spurt , even though she knew that he meant nothing by it , ‘ But for you , I will , ’ he added . |
| 16 | It is equivalent to landing on the hedge because you did not close the airbrake , even though you knew that you were likely to hit it . |
| 17 | She admitted that , ‘ even though you knew that what you said did n't matter ’ , it was a daunting experience ; in fact ‘ afterwards , counsel apologised for giving me such a hard time ’ . |
| 18 | Most of all , perhaps , as the woman behind these anonymous observations concludes , ‘ When you were with him , you were all he was ever interested in , even though you knew that a week or two later it would be somebody else . |
| 19 | Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter . |
| 20 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 21 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 22 | Though everybody knew that the constitution of Sparta was behind the reputation of Spartan generals and soldiers , it would have been beneath the ordinary standards of Greek historical judgement to explain an individual victory or defeat as a product of the Spartan constitution . |
| 23 | His Lordship could not accept that a sensible construction of paragraph 19 involved that , provided only the commercial deputising service was large and efficient enough , the FPC was in practice obliged to give its consent even though it knew that the doctor in question intended to delegate his entire practice to such an organisation . |
| 24 | He did not like the idea of being closed in a black tomb , though he knew that it would be only his Sahu lying there . |
| 25 | The moment was exciting and he wanted to prolong it — to think of himself as capable of taking up such an offer — though he knew that in the end he would have to decline it . |