Example sentences of "though [pron] [adv] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the outbreak of war on 3 September 1939 made a second Merstham visit impossible , though I always regretted that it could not he managed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And though she half hoped that Friend would wheel alongside her so that she could ignore him , he did n't appear . |
| 7 | Of course this sally , and the discovery of our locational ancestry opened the way to friendship , though we soon realised that we had much more in common , not least a sharp sense of humour , which we were both going to need . |
| 8 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 9 | Shinwell , of course , had little patience with such assertions , though he later conceded that running the finances of the Sailors and Firemen was far from easy . |
| 10 | As such , he saw Darwinian theory as having something to say to social scientists , even though he also emphasised that there is a ‘ cultural ’ level specifically associated with conceptualising human beings . |
| 11 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 12 | Although Invergordon had cut back production like most other distillers , Dr Greig stressed that there would be no closures or job losses , though he also said that life was ‘ becoming more competitive all the time ’ . |
| 13 | Darwin , on the other hand felt that if bodies could evolve from one form to the other , therefore the mind could as well , though he freely admitted that he had no ideas concerning the essential nature of mind itself , nor even of life . |
| 14 | Kingsley Amis , similarly , once remarked on television how much he disapproved of the book — ‘ Nobs ’ appeal , ’ he remarked crushingly , ‘ the appeal of nobs , ’ though he generously added that he often reread it . |
| 15 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 16 | Though he occasionally complained that his agent pushed too much work in his direction , he appears to have turned nothing down , accepting even very slight commissions from the Penrose Annual or the Complete Imbiber . |
| 17 | His preferred model of government was a Chinese one — that of the Mandarinate ; though he readily admitted that its chances of introduction into France were extremely small . |