Example sentences of "though [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up . |
| 2 | The night is black and there are no streetlights , and I feel as though I am not driving on a road at all , but forcing my way through clotted bushes . |
| 3 | It turns out ( though I am not going to prove it here ) that the v ( x , y ) = constant curves are orthogonal trajectories of the u ( x , y ) = constant curves . |
| 4 | I personally could n't begin to choose a favourite on this album , though I am especially fascinated by the Gregorian chant influence of Ebudea . |
| 5 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , she was , though I was n't thinking of Lucia . ’ |
| 7 | I was terrified , even though I was n't operating . |
| 8 | It 's quite an empire , Meredith , and I created it — though I was n't expecting to part with it , except to my son . |
| 9 | And anyhow , ’ he ended with a trace of a grin , ‘ even though I was n't admitting the power you had over me , I think that even then I subconsciously did n't want you driving off anywhere where I might not easily find you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Sandra did n't have any experience in auditing , so I taught her how to audit , even though I was n't qualified then , ’ remembers Claire . |
| 11 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 12 | I could sense its vibrations , though I was n't bothered by it ’ ( p.126 ) . |
| 13 | The obstructions , though I was never told this , included the actual stands of the course on the western end . |
| 14 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 15 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 16 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 17 | I felt as though I were about to undergo an important test . ’ |
| 18 | They learn a lot more at my talks , even though I 'm just going over the very basics of the subject . |
| 19 | Bill Reynolds runs an organic farm in Somerset and makes arguably — though I 'm not arguing — the best bacon in England . |
| 20 | B : ‘ I feel as though I 'm not doing my duty as a father . |
| 21 | I I feel as though I 'm not doing anything useful . |
| 22 | Someone like Northside or The Mondays , though I 'm not knocking ‘ em , they 're more about grooves . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ There 's no need to look at me as though I 'm about to rape you , ’ he barked impatiently . |
| 24 | Muriel is perhaps this author 's most disagreeable character , though she is not seen without pity . |
| 25 | She struggles , eyes widening further , but I pin her to the sheets with my weight and keep the glove firmly over her mouth even though she is n't making any noise . |
| 26 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 27 | ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’ |
| 28 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 29 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 30 | any more any more trouble even though she 's not getting into bad trouble as such it 's going off and coming home |