Example sentences of "though he be [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Archbold might try for a double in tomorrow 's 5,000 metres event , though he is also hoping to break the course record in the Vaux Old Pit races 10K at Sunderland on Wednesday night . |
| 2 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 3 | Suddenly Holden turned his machine-gun on the onlookers and fired , scattering them in all directions and scaring them to death even though he was only firing blanks . |
| 4 | Eyes of darkest brown , ’ he continued softly , but he did n't sound as though he were amused , or teasing — rather as though he was merely making a statement of fact , which she found slightly disconcerting . |
| 5 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 8 | She stared in anger at the old man 's face , at his eyes which goggled anxiously at hers , then roved off when she met his look , his lips which caved in on his gums and mumbled and tightened as though he was always eating . |
| 9 | It looks as though he was deliberately emphasizing the legal basis of his right to order the affairs of Aquitaine . |
| 10 | Though he was deliberately sending himself up , he was also stating a simple fact . |
| 11 | At this discovery he felt as though he was really achieving something . |
| 12 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 13 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 14 | The ascent had now become so steep , it seemed as though he were now swimming up through the darkness , which was thickening and growing viscous . |
| 15 | His shadowed eyes roved around , as though he were personally serenading each woman in the room , and Shelley felt a shiver when his glance rested on her neat fair head and blue eyes . |