Example sentences of "though [pron] were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 2 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 3 | ‘ Julia , ’ she said , as though she were just waking up . |
| 4 | Had she really managed to look as though she were still holding together ? |
| 5 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 6 | No one expected to achieve anything much after lunch , so the mood was languid and light-hearted , as though we were just pretending . |
| 7 | We began to feel cold , even though we were well wrapped up , and cocooned in our sleeping bags . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Even though we were always moving around , we 'd always be on the same tip ; we 'd go to bed at the same time and my mom would carry cooking pots into hotels and cook — stink out the whole place with curry . |
| 10 | A total of 364 economists , almost one for each day of the year , dispatched a formal letter to The Times denouncing the government 's economic approach as ruinous — though they were soon matched by a similarly large number of economists who were prepared to endorse it . |
| 11 | But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out , gazing to the ceiling deep in thought . |
| 12 | His clothes clung to his tall , slender frame , though they were slightly mussed after being slept in for a week . |
| 13 | The linen area was unheated , and though they were well protected from the ravages of the wind she was aware of her damp clothing chilling her skin , the rough chattering of her teeth . |
| 14 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 15 | " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said . |
| 16 | There , they were brilliant and I felt as though they were just starting to work when finished . |
| 17 | Rose 's family was told that the operation was a matter of life-and-death , so they gave the surgeons permission , even though they were also warned that the operation could result in further bleeding and disability . |
| 18 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 19 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 20 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 21 | In fact , the belief that menstruation incapacitated women seems to have increased amongst some ‘ experts ’ , though they were constantly challenged . |
| 22 | For a man born in the north-east , where the tradition and practice of the joint board was strong , such sentiments were hardly surprising , though they were usually received by shipowners either with amusement at their naivety or with anger at their effrontery . |
| 23 | It was nice to be alone with him in Faye and Bill 's room , even though they were only doing the most mundane of jobs — stripping bed linen , dismantling head- and base-boards , and struggling with the big double mattress . |
| 24 | Though they were still doing less than half as much business as the British company , their rate of return on capital was higher . |
| 25 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 26 | Despite the 1984 break with the IMF , economic stringency measures remained in force though they were gradually reduced in the following years . |
| 27 | Carol II was sympathetic to pseudo-fascist architecture and several of the most brutal pillar-and-concrete buildings in the capital were put up in his reign , though they were smoothly filled by the personnel of the new regime after 1944 . |
| 28 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 29 | Schools with collaborative cultures were friendly and secure places in which to work , but they were not cosy ; differences between members were openly tackled and though they were often resolved through compromise , this was not always an easy process . |
| 30 | The occasional listings of inhabitants that survive for places up and down the country make it clear that older married people did not live with their married children , though they were often housed nearby . |