Example sentences of "though [pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 2 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 3 | Though I honestly thought you were his mum or his auntie , Jan ! |
| 4 | I would try and tell you what I have been thinking ; though I once told you I cried because I was incapable of thought … . |
| 5 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 6 | Even though I now encourage my class to use any methods they like , there are still times when I wished I had not said something which could inhibit a pupil 's thinking . |
| 7 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 8 | And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know this is a difficult time for you , and I know that you 'd hate like hell to lie to Naylor — though I sincerely hope you wo n't have to — but I can still rely on you to keep quiet about Rosemary and me , ca n't I ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I just do n't like being used by rich politicians , ’ Ellen said angrily , though I silently noted she had no objections to taking their money . |
| 11 | She told me I was the only person she could trust , though I often saw her around with other people , misplaced people , I suppose . |
| 12 | Golf was mine , though I often found it more of an aggravation than a relaxation . |
| 13 | Scheibe is a wheel or disc and bücken is the transitive verb for ‘ to bend ’ so I would like to think it meant ‘ wheel-buckler ’ though I greatly doubt it . |
| 14 | Though I too have my outside proof of a professional self , I too am a woman who stays at home . |
| 15 | Though I never managed it in total . ’ |
| 16 | I did — with admiration , though I never assumed he was to be taken without criticism . |
| 17 | A real good friend , Sarah Byrne , though I never thought I 'd say it . ’ |
| 18 | Binoculars bring out the orange-red hue clearly , though I never find it very pronounced . |
| 19 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
| 20 | Fences are not rushed in the stormy outbursts of No. 2 — though I still think he hurries Chopin 's dramatic interruption ( that fortissimo discord and pause ) in the last few bars . |
| 21 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 22 | Crabtree and Evelyn is not a name I would instantly associate with culinary excellence — though I always knew they could make you smell nice . |
| 23 | M8 , not far from Lambda , is an easy binocular object , though I always find its neighbour , M20 , rather elusive . |
| 24 | Sounding for all the world as though she quite hated him , Gwen commented disgustedly , ‘ I have never known a child to get so dirty ! ’ |
| 25 | He was very fond of Anna , though she often maddened him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They always made Sophia think how much more Mark would be appreciated in a different sort of parish , though she never said anything about it now . |
| 28 | Though she never thought she 'd see the day when she 'd be thankful for Matthew 's presence in the same room as her , Charity silently echoed Mandy 's gratitude , and held down her skirt even harder . |
| 29 | Though she still knew she was obscurely to blame , that when Tommaso lifted her onto the bar stool with his big hands which almost met under her rib cage , the current was live in the air around them , and Rosa would not have liked it . |
| 30 | ‘ Bread and jam , my dear ? ’ said Mrs Hollidaye as though she still had her cloth-ears on . |