Example sentences of "although he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he fought to control it , his voice trembled , and the knuckles of the hands which clutched the chair at whose back he stood were huge , the skin stretched tautly across them . |
| 2 | The solicitor was a scrupulously correct elderly man with no sense of humour and a dislike of being hurried , although he 'd moved quickly enough this time . |
| 3 | Although he 'd written that I was not a fantasy for him , he had dreamed me , written me , into a woman far less flawed than I am , or ever could be . |
| 4 | Erm next day it was still there although he 'd phoned the police . |
| 5 | Although he 'd assured her that there were no problems , and that she must n't worry her pretty head about her clients , who were sure to understand her problems , Laura still could n't help feeling slightly anxious . |
| 6 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 7 | He 'd trusted her ; even when everything seemed to point against her , and although he 'd known her only a few short days , he 'd believed in her . |
| 8 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
| 9 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
| 10 | He looked like he was enjoying it , although he kept making mistakes , forcing the juggernaut to shudder and shake to a standstill . |
| 11 | He can not speak although he does scream and cry . |
| 12 | He can not speak although he does scream and cry . |
| 13 | For the main part , he has financed his habit throughout by working , although he does admit to dealing occasionally when work was scarce . |
| 14 | The chronicler does not seem to have been among them , although he does say that in 1006 the king and his councillors thought offering tribute distasteful . |
| 15 | And although he does reserve his party pieces for his formidable long-range free kicks , most of those were off target apart from one effort which hit a post late on . |
| 16 | And though he 's no longer particularly religious himself — although he does believe in God — Pitt says he admires them for their dedication to their beliefs . |
| 17 | What the diffident schoolboy has lost is the confidence that his beliefs are tracking the truth ; he takes it that , although he does believe that p , it is at least as probable that he is wrong as that he is right . |
| 18 | Giggs is the same now … although he does look slighter than Sharpe so possibly he wont slow as much . |
| 19 | Carl Prean , another former holder of the Top 12 who beat Douglas in the final of the Classic , is absent in Germany , which should give Cooke a better chance to revive his fortunes , although he does have two talented teenagers Matthew Syed and Michael O'Driscoll in his group . |
| 20 | Nick is only a bystander , like the reader , and fairly impartial , although he does have a character of his own and separate events involved in his life , apart from Daisy and Gatsby . |
| 21 | The value of formal education was largely endorsed by Rogers ' family , who taught him to read before school , although he does acknowledge their concern about his consequent impractical nature . |
| 22 | It leaves the notion of understanding untouched ; Hume seems to agree that we understand propositions about unobserved objects , although he does argue on independent grounds that they are mostly false . |
| 23 | He then flew to New Hampshire where he spent the day on the campaign trail attempting to counter the growing challenge of right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan , although he declined to refer directly to his rival . |
| 24 | The post offered , that of general inspector of tobaccos , was a good one , and the intended recipient , Deacon Murray , was well pleased , although he declined to accept . |
| 25 | Although he relished playing for Rangers , the team he had fervently supported as a youth , Fleck fell foul of the club 's increasingly strict discipline . |
| 26 | Although he avoids arguing that capitalism created a sexual morality to serve its own imperatives — it has no master plan — ‘ the best we can do at this stage is to suggest that the articulation between sexual mores and capitalism occurs through complex mediations — through moral agencies , political interventions , diverse social practices ’ . |
| 27 | This is why although he dares to pose his overwhelming question , he can never be in a position to answer it with more than an assertion and the promise of more totalizations . |
| 28 | Although he managed to beat the count , Wormald was in no position to defend himself and referee Dave Parris stopped the contest with 35 seconds remaining in the opening round . |
| 29 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
| 30 | But apart from hunting , he seems to have left the business of government to his earls , although he continued to enjoy the society of churchmen , especially of foreign churchmen , gave his heart to the building of Westminster Abbey , engaged in the royal works of mercy , stood meekly through divine office and mass , and — a special note of conscientiousness — ‘ at these times , unless he was addressed , he rarely spoke to anyone ’ . |