Example sentences of "even though [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We point this out because in order to consider the latter issue we will discuss experiments using both written and spoken presentation , even though we restricted our discussion of when processing begins to spoken language , where a relatively clear picture has emerged . |
| 2 | Their lawyer , Patricia Hambrecht , says : ‘ We witnessed a dramatic drop in our appraisal business for donations to institutions , and even though we realised it was not in our narrow self-interest , we knew it was for the good of the overall arts community ’ . |
| 3 | We do not know Selkirk 's secret , even though we hold it in our hands . |
| 4 | You know I said they 're all fantastically healthy and yet there are n't any old folks even though we thought they travelled around together in a group ? |
| 5 | And in fact we said that we would be able to start it on the , at the beginning of May , even though we knew we would n't , we thought we 'd say that |
| 6 | Even though we knew it was little girls he 'd be after , not little boys … ’ |
| 7 | Beauty is not fixed , or frozen , even though we have our preferred modes for expressing it . |
| 8 | If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places . |
| 9 | Even though we believe we 're so … so … bloody CLEVER ! |
| 10 | They 've decided that marriage ceremonies have nothing to do with how they feel , even though they regard their relationship as being every bit as permanent as marriage . ’ |
| 11 | Many people have had experiences of déjà vu , when they have come across a place which they are able to describe in precise detail even though they know they have never been there before . |
| 12 | Reasoning powers can deteriorate : people may begin to think irrationally ( and do so even though they know they are doing so ) ; they may begin to get paranoid , feeling that others are slyly poking fun at them , excluding them from discussions , or being condescending or patronizing . |
| 13 | Other Unionists , including Law himself , were less sure , even though they shared their colleagues " concern about the political and economic situation ; nevertheless it was agreed to go ahead , but that Lloyd George should make the first move . |
| 14 | The House Speaker , Tom Foley , and the Senate majority leader , George Mitchell , have urged him to reconsider his stance — even though they concede they do not have the votes to override a veto . |
| 15 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 16 | Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other . |
| 17 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 18 | What will happen to the most vulnerable , who can not even complain because they can not communicate — even though they pay their taxes to support these services ? |
| 19 | It was a terribly long journey , even though they broke it in Florida . |
| 20 | Once it is accepted that principles can be part of the law for reasons not reflecting convention but just because they are morally appealing , then a door is opened for the more threatening idea that some principles are part of the law because of their moral appeal , even though they contradict what convention has endorsed . |
| 21 | ‘ They do n't really want somebody with my background , even though they say they do . |
| 22 | These results clearly challenge any notion that women are giving informed consent for their babies to be tested , even though they believe themselves to have been informed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Southey 's seafaring brother , Tom , was an early recruit to the scheme , as was Southey 's widowed mother in Bath ( even though she told him she thought he was mad ) . |
| 25 | Acid rose in her throat and , even though she knew her anger was , in truth , directed at Marianne , she could n't prevent it from spilling into her words . |
| 26 | Eventually he asked her out , and , even though she knew her parents strongly disapproved of the flashy young man from London , she disobeyed them and started sneaking out of the house every night when they were asleep , to meet him . |
| 27 | Not Rhoda Brocklebank , even though she knew everybody , and was certainly more deeply linked with William Egan than she had admitted ; not her because she was not emotionally involved with the Pitts . |
| 28 | He had the unhappy knack of putting her back up , even though she knew he was right . |
| 29 | Even though she knew she was playing with fire , knew exactly how vulnerable she was , Shannon wanted to laugh in his arrogant face . |
| 30 | She turned away , feeling sick at heart , even though she knew she should be glad . |