Example sentences of "though [pron] be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise there is little of the ritual of the courts , though everyone is expected to stand when the tribunal members enter or leave . |
| 2 | ‘ Though I am bound to say , Signorita Maitland , that you are more beautiful than any flower . ’ |
| 3 | I feel as though I am starting to write a new story in the book of Giorgio Armani . ’ |
| 4 | Though I am forced to admit that his searches , like mine , would probably have been futile . ’ |
| 5 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 6 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 7 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 8 | ‘ Will you stop acting as though I 'm going to rape you , ’ he said impatiently . |
| 9 | Her Marks and Spencer coat has been recovered from the accident and it is draped across the foot of her bed , as though she is fixing to leave . |
| 10 | But even though she is dying to leave , she has to stick with it because there is no alternative . ’ |
| 11 | That lady 's gon na come next to us look as though she 's looking to see if it 's available |
| 12 | The Queen Mother is of course impeccably bred , though she 's failed to make it to the last 3 Chelsea Flower Shows and looks as if she 'll remain at home again this year . |
| 13 | I mean I honestly think she 's not going to pass even though she 's going to have another go . |
| 14 | Ce Ce , though all of 21 , has a high-pitched voice that sounds as though she 's going to break into giggles . |
| 15 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 16 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 17 | Some part of her still wanted to defend Luke Hunter , even though she was beginning to realise that he was far from being the man she thought she knew — the man she had let herself love . |
| 18 | ‘ You are a nice person , ’ said Dot , though she was beginning to feel unsure about it . |
| 19 | She must do it now , though she was rushing to get ready for another appointment — this time with one of the estate agents in town who had rung to tell her he had an attic to let for what sounded like a very reasonable rent . |
| 20 | For a moment it looked as though she was going to break down . |
| 21 | Several other Scottish education authorities — including Dumfries and Galloway , Highland , Tayside and Strathclyde — have already developed strong anti-smoking policies , though none is thought to have rejected the case for smokers ' areas . |
| 22 | Even though you are trying to make positive stroke , do n't try to hit it hard . |
| 23 | Have you ever tried to install software that refuses to use anything but the A : drive even though you are forced to use it in the B : drive because of the size of the diskettes ? |
| 24 | Though you 're bound to try to make it work , I do see , ’ he said , watching her hands , ‘ in a place where opportunism 's gone mad and grown so repulsive as a political dynamic . ’ |
| 25 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 26 | Though you 're going to need more time and space to yourself though . |
| 27 | If you try saying ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ with a level tone ( rather as though you were trying to sing them on a steady note ) you may find the result does not sound natural , and indeed English speakers do not use level tones on one-syllable utterances very frequently . |
| 28 | ‘ You looked as though you were set to sleep all day . ’ |
| 29 | This makes it important to use the airbrakes to ensure that you cross the upwind boundary very low as though you were attempting to land in the first part of the field . |
| 30 | This has been observed in a large number of deep sea cores from both high and low latitudes , though one is tempted to ask how many other species did not become extinct during this period . |