Example sentences of "though she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stood on a little round table in front of the muslin-curtained window , and the long green plush sofa against the opposite wall bore the imprint of the length of the girl 's body as though she habitually lay there to watch it . |
| 2 | Though she rarely drank , Charity drained her small bottle of wine , hoping for some small illusion of warmth from it . |
| 3 | Indeed , Beatrice is notorious for signing the 1889 women 's appeal against female suffrage , though she later recanted . |
| 4 | It never occurred to her to worry about what was to be done with her , though she wryly thought that the hospitality of the military establishment seemed to be a constant throughout human history . |
| 5 | Trish obviously has a great rapport with the odd character , though she freely admits that he , despite his talent , is an unrewarding sort of horse . |
| 6 | It was cool and dark , but familiar , and she felt no fear as she entered it , though she briefly touched the jet amulet at her neck for luck . |
| 7 | Folly nodded , trying not to show her distaste , even though she privately thought that any man who could n't be bothered to remember his wife 's birthday did n't deserve to be married . |
| 8 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 9 | I feel like she 's done this deliberately , though she probably did n't even know where she was . |
| 10 | Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors . |
| 11 | His other concession to fame is that he has turned one room of his house in Oswestry into his office where his sister-in-law is his full-time secretary , though she also helps Woosnam 's wife , Glyndreth , with their young family . |
| 12 | Today though she just wanted to curl up and die . |
| 13 | So she held back on her questioning , though she somehow found that she was telling him of her love of music and how Janáček 's lively sixth movement was one of her particular favourites . |
| 14 | But she said it as though she already knew different , for then , as though speaking to another invisible adult , she added , ‘ I do n't think . |
| 15 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 16 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 17 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 18 | Her sensitivity at all times to what will run in Cabinet is genuine , even though she always lets colleagues know what she wants at the outset of any discussion . |
| 19 | Jack , at whom now she never looked though she always smiled had , in departing , kissed her . |
| 20 | Sounding for all the world as though she quite hated him , Gwen commented disgustedly , ‘ I have never known a child to get so dirty ! ’ |
| 21 | He was very fond of Anna , though she often maddened him . |
| 22 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 23 | She said I was too much for her , and I assume she thought she was being admiring , though she certainly meant I was not enough . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 25 | In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air . |
| 26 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
| 27 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 28 | But Maureen said sorrowfully , ‘ She wants him there even though she never speaks civilly to him . |
| 29 | Though she never lived to see the day , six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns . |
| 30 | To everyone 's relief , including his mother 's though she never said so , Marion 's year-old Alan was taken off by his fostermother to be reared at her father 's home in Killundine . |