Example sentences of "though [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is going , perhaps , less strongly than it might if the techniques that the laboratory uses for dating pottery , wood and other materials — though no-one has yet found a method of dating metals — were not available . |
| 2 | No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . ) |
| 3 | Since she felt as though someone had physically kicked her in the stomach , it took Shannon a moment or two to get the words out . |
| 4 | She had a little pug-like dog who wore an expression of perpetual outrage , its eyes bulging as though someone had just said something unforgivable to it . |
| 5 | He looked , she thought , as though someone had just kicked him hard in the stomach . |
| 6 | Fran felt as though someone had just knocked the breath out of her and fought to speak . |
| 7 | ‘ As though someone had just scrubbed the place out . |
| 8 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 9 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
| 10 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 11 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 12 | ‘ I was also wrong about you and my father — though I had actually begun to suspect that years ago . |
| 13 | Unmistakable , even though I had never seen one before ; a big bird , brown and grey with a red throat , low in the water , where the wind-rippled surface managed to camouflage it in the most extraordinary way . |
| 14 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 15 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |
| 16 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 17 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 18 | Like as though I had never left … |
| 19 | Though I had always disliked Christmas , because I knew it made my mother unhappy for some reason , that was one Christmas when I was happy , and I have never forgotten it . |
| 20 | He became angry , as though I had personally betrayed him by not giving him a boy . ’ |
| 21 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 22 | you once asked as though I 'd just begun |
| 23 | Though I 'd just had the official report , I wanted the inside story . |
| 24 | My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky . |
| 25 | I mean some people are looking at me as though I 've just revealed some dread secret |
| 26 | Had I still got something wrong with my heart , even though I 've never felt better since my by-pass operation . |
| 27 | I 've tried everything , from bribery to anger ( though I 've never smacked her ) . |
| 28 | Organisation they say — though I 've never cracked it myself — is the key to success and you ca n't hope to be efficient unless , for a start , you have a tidy garden shed or garage , where most people store tools these days ! |
| 29 | I also see Spitting Image , yes , though I 've always felt their puppet of me was rather like Richard Nixon . |
| 30 | I would prefer to finish my sentence here even though I 've only got three weeks to go . |