Example sentences of "though [pron] be still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’ |
| 3 | She recovered herself a little , though she was still trembling . |
| 4 | Had she really managed to look as though she were still holding together ? |
| 5 | So it looks as though our scheming is of no avail , though we are still hoping to see you here one day — surely our wild country must appeal to a shooting man ? |
| 6 | ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents . |
| 7 | Though they were still doing less than half as much business as the British company , their rate of return on capital was higher . |
| 8 | The Rheidol line offers some of the most spectacular scenery available on Welsh railways and , as far as railway enthusiasts are concerned , the line still has much to offer even though it is still recovering after being reduced to virtual siding status in the last year 's of British Rail management . |
| 9 | ICL is keeping schtum on the progress of its Texas Instruments Inc Viking-based Model 764 , though it is still shooting for the fourth quarter . |
| 10 | More recent work has demonstrated that the allochthon is not quite as confused as was formerly thought , and the term Argille scagliose has been dropped in Italy ( though it is still used in many other parts of the world ) . |
| 11 | In due course it was bred a little shorter in the leg , with finer bone and a better udder , though it was still disparaged as being rather ungainly and plain . |
| 12 | Though he 's still injured , Mick Quinn 's horse trained by Mick Channon and prophetically called Pleasure Ahead — won the 1.30 at Lingfield at 5–1 . |
| 13 | She was really pleased when she came back and found him fighting fit , even though he was still using one wing as a crutch to support his crooked leg . |
| 14 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 15 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |