Example sentences of "though he did [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) . |
| 2 | The leg-spinner , Ian Salisbury , proved the most expensive , conceding 142 runs from just 29 overs , though he did end up with two wickets including that of Tendulkar . |
| 3 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 4 | The ambition was what Gains , in his autobiography , calls the ‘ impossible dream ’ ; the colour line effectively prohibited him from challenging for the world title , though he did beat George Godfrey for the black version of the championship in 1928 . |
| 5 | Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established . |
| 6 | He had not been well early in the previous year , and decided to resign as Chairman , though he did remain on the Board for five more years as the Goldsmiths ' nominee . |
| 7 | Woolton was an exponent of laisser faire , Leathers a rather unsuccessful interventionist , Alexander ineffectual all round , and Cherwell what he had always been , a highly intelligent courtier to his chief , though he did succeed in driving through his pet project of hiving off atomic energy from the Ministry of Supply into what became the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 8 | Nightmares and night-time anxiety , are a regular feature of Leonard 's work , though he did remark to us , ‘ I do n't think that I was scarred by anything . ’ |
| 9 | On one occasion he ostentatiously refused a challenge from an infuriated opponent in a lawsuit , preferring to endure public humiliation rather than call out his tormentor ( though he did complain to the Commons of the breach of privilege ) , and earned the public thanks of the Society for setting such a ‘ noble and Christian ’ example . |
| 10 | And if she were dead , what had happened to her before dying did not bear thinking about ( though he did think about it , all the same ) . |
| 11 | Guy Gregory put over a total of 18 points , including the first dropped goals of the season for Nottingham , though he did miss four other chances . |
| 12 | The former Cabinet minister refused to rule out the possibility in the wake of his scornful accusation that the Prime Minister 's shrewd political instincts had been led astray by the ‘ Irish logic ’ of the Foreign Office , though he did say it was ‘ very unlikely ’ . |
| 13 | , though he did say he would like another short-stay admission for her as |
| 14 | ‘ Never , though he did say his local picture house was the Pavilion and I know his mother took her loaves to be baked at a place called Jimmy McFadden 's bakery , but they 're not in the phone book , either of them . |
| 15 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 16 | " No , and I was glad to see him , even though he did say I was gettin' fatter . |
| 17 | The manager declined to be interviewed though he did say he 's no longer selling the game . |
| 18 | The innkeeper , in Coleridge 's version of events , could remember nothing remotely suspicious in the activities either of Coleridge or the ‘ strange gentleman ’ from Alfoxden , though he did recall the amazement of some local farmers when , at a great dinner party , Coleridge and the vicar of Stowey had talked ‘ real Hebrew Greek at each other for an hour together ’ . |
| 19 | It seems , for instance , that he never read Malinowski , though he did read Graves 's 1927 Criterion review of Malinowski 's work and referred in 1933 to the Trobriand Islands , site of some of that anthropologist 's famous field-work . |
| 20 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 21 | Colman 's wartime and postwar work before the camera was less distinguished , though he did win an Oscar in 1947 for an uncharacteristically highly charged dramatic role in A Double Life before moving on to a lucrative second career in American radio and television , playing the professor in Halls of Ivy ( 1950–2 ) , a series he also produced and owned . |
| 22 | The POW , Adolf , ended up on the cutting room floor in that shot , though he did survive in an earlier one . |
| 23 | Though he did smile as he recalled , ‘ But our time together improved , did it not ? ’ |
| 24 | Alistair had not been a published screenplay writer long enough to respond to , or even recognize , this graphic proposition ( though he did keep the telephone number she threw at his feet ) . |
| 25 | But Dalton wrote no chemical equations , though he did use symbols to indicate composition and perhaps even structure . |
| 26 | Both the scale of his operations and the degree of his specialization in financial business made him a unique figure in early Stuart England , though he did have a few other economic irons in the fire : among them , a share in the tobacco monopoly and the export of iron ordnance in the 1620s and huge purchases of East India Company pepper in 1623 and 1628 . |
| 27 | Though he did have a bit of a tan , unlike most of the men over here . |
| 28 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 29 | He suggested that , in the vast majority of cases , the procedure was accessible to unrepresented appellants ( though he did concede that they should receive assistance ) and that it would be undesirable to extend legal aid generally to cover such appeals ( Micklethwait , 1976 ) . |
| 30 | Last year he scored 259 to make sure of the 1991 County championship , and plodded off unemotionally : though he did concede to emotion on the balcony when the victory was eventually sealed . |