Example sentences of "though [pron] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm gon na do the eyes when it 's finished because the white went all splodgy cos I could n't get the brush in even though I had a tiny brush . |
| 2 | The second sense mentioned by Cotte is " permission given " , and can be illustrated by a sentence such as : ( 215 ) The doctor let me donate blood for my father even though I had a mild case of the flu . |
| 3 | It was all as though I had a horrible secret I had to keep . ’ |
| 4 | Though I had the distinct impression that Edward would have preferred me to leave too , he said nothing , merely drummed his fingers on the desk top , then snapped , ‘ Well ? ’ into the receiver . |
| 5 | Even though I have a four-arm tension mast , this does n't help when the yarn tangles up and wo n't go through . |
| 6 | ‘ I lead a relatively quiet life , though I have a few friends in the industry because it 's important to have a grape-vine . |
| 7 | When I 'm working in the theatre , I tend to steer clear of TV dramas , though I have a soft spot for P D James and Ruth Rendell thrillers . |
| 8 | With this came the decision to specialise in watercolour , even though I have a natural tendency towards the oil painter 's way of thinking . |
| 9 | And even though I have no real job , I believe that life is what you make of it . |
| 10 | I am — was — a doctor , first-generation professional class ; as you see , there 's no moustache , though I have the military past which men of my age could n't avoid ; I live in Essex , most characterless and therefore most acceptable of the Home Counties ; whisky , not gin ; no tweed at all ; and no boating . |
| 11 | Like most families then Jill did n't have a fridge so shopping was a daily event though she had a ventilated larder to store some perishables . |
| 12 | At twenty-two years old she was already a Fascist speaker and organiser at Manchester , though she had a full-time job as a secretary with Morton Sundour Fabrics . |
| 13 | ‘ I really loved her and to be with her again in the group was quite nice , even though she had a new boyfriend . |
| 14 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 15 | During the show trials at the end of the 1940s she had been imprisoned pour encourager les autres , though she had no political associations . |
| 16 | Though she had no personal experience , she had always assumed that Jake would be a man of vigorous sexual appetites . |
| 17 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 18 | ‘ You make it sound as though we had a reasonable discussion , instead of which you threatened to throw me out — no matter what . |
| 19 | Everyone was really excited even though we had a long coach journey ahead of us . |
| 20 | Luckily we were n't attacked , though we had a few scares . |
| 21 | Though we have no contemporary commentary on the Pergamene works we can hardly go wrong if we choose to see in them a monument to human pain made somehow more tolerable to contemplate because embodied in barbarians . |
| 22 | Though we have no contemporary report from Aquitaine , tenth- and eleventh-century writers there complement the Italians ' information by assigning a key role to " the men of Aquitaine " on Charles 's side , with two Aquitanian counts named as among the slain . |
| 23 | There had indeed been a family of minor gentry called Salperton in the later Middle Ages though they had no demonstrable connection with the Conquest . |
| 24 | The Greeks distrusted this theology , even though they had a deep respect for Augustine , because they thought that it was too anthropomorphic . |
| 25 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 26 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 27 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 28 | The words we use , though they have a central core of meaning that is relatively fixed , have a fringe of uncertainty when applied to the infinitely variable facts of experience . |
| 29 | They are tall and proud in their bearing and though they have a slim build they are surprisingly strong and agile for their size . |
| 30 | I have a duty to support just governments in foreign countries , even though they have no legitimate power over me . |