Example sentences of "though [pron] was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first .
2 Though she was wishing that , after all , she 'd taken a seat , for she suspected he was rather enjoying letting her stew in her own juice .
3 Lucenzo was smiling for a special reason , though she was darned if she knew why .
4 I have seen our old matriarch walk between two younger antagonists and break up a fight with a snarl , even though she was aged and barely able to walk .
5 Both Soviet and British spheres of influence should be discouraged as far as possible , though it was accepted that such spheres would be among the inescapable facts of contemporary life .
6 The Black Report into inequalities in health ( Townsend and Davidson 1982 ) has already passed into the main body of research , though it was commissioned and published , albeit unwillingly , by government .
7 By 1979 The Economist was implying that the government 's new cost control team under Sir Derek Rayner ( head of Marks and Spencer ) had effectively killed PAR , though it was anticipated that this body would do similar work by introducing business methods of accounting into government .
8 Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply .
9 Even though it was suggested that such crises may at some point lead to a collapse of the system , this is not inevitable nor even highly probable .
10 All Dobry 's major recommendations for changes in the system were rejected , though it was stressed that their objectives could typically be achieved if local authorities adopted ‘ the most efficient working methods .
11 Colonel Lamb 's wound was above the knee , the report said , though it was feared that he might lose the leg .
12 In comparison the trade union movement did little until the subsidy ended on 30 April 1926 , even though it was expected that the Samuel Commission would be unable to offer a compromise which might be agreeable to both coal owners and unions .
13 I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events .
14 In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother .
15 Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do .
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