Example sentences of "even though [pron] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |
| 2 | Like Donald Wilson before , Newman accepted the strength of the ‘ Dalek Factor ’ and agreed to let Verity Lambert handle Doctor Who her way after that , even though it meant his sacrificing part of the ideals he had intended the show to represent . |
| 3 | Even though it caught his eyes , so that he was actually watching when it happened , the figure that leapt from the blackness was only a silvery blur , moving with breathtaking and unreal speed . |
| 4 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |
| 5 | My father made no attempt ever to control his rages even though he knew his condition . |
| 6 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 7 | Bob could n't stop staring at her , even though he had his arm round Tessa . |
| 8 | Rolle , however , wrote his mystical treatises in Latin , even though he wrote his popular ascetical and ethical tracts in Middle English . |
| 9 | But Nocker , the part he played in Camel was no Bilko , even though he threw his weight around just as though he were head of the transport squad at Fort Baxter . |
| 10 | Characteristically , after this burst of bitter humour he added that ‘ it was quite nice ’ even though he found his host ‘ about as intelligent as a mule and as human as a boa-constrictor ’ . |