Example sentences of "but though [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But though her cheeks flamed she held his gaze . |
| 2 | Isabel wished she could find the oblivion of sleep as easily , but though her body ached after the unaccustomed hours in the saddle her mind refused to rest . |
| 3 | But though her mouth opened it was a silent entreaty and all she seemed able to do was cling to the top of her cage near where branches of trees hung and vainly try to say words that would not come . |
| 4 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 5 | In 1697 Peter I sent groups of Russian nobles to Venice , the Dutch republic and England , essentially to study seamanship ; but though their training was intended to be purely technical they none the less provided when they returned home a nucleus of mainly young men with experience of foreign countries and a grasp of foreign languages . |
| 6 | But though my spirits were high , the shadow of that man , who liked to be called the Ángel of Death , travelled with me , the memory of his good looks , his well-oiled virility , above all Iris Sunderby 's apparent infatuation , constantly there in my mind . |
| 7 | She recognized him immediately , but though his gaze passed over her there was no recognition . |
| 8 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 9 | But though our brains are big , they are not the biggest ; whale and elephant are larger and we only top the scale if you take into account overall body size — our brain is largest relative to our bodies . |