Example sentences of "though [pron] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
2 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
3 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
4 | It was a home , her own home , even though everything was scavenged second hand , except for some net curtains , a coffee table and a picture on the wall above the mantelpiece . |
5 | They divided the territory in two , though it was reunited thirty years later . |
6 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
7 | That year he won an Eclipse Award as champion grass horse , though he was rated eight pounds below Spectacular Bid , the Horse Of The Year . |
8 | Winner used a megaphone to relay instructions while filming , and Crawford and Reed decided to smear shoe polish round the mouthpiece , which made him look as though he was wearing black lipstick . |
9 | He looked perfectly amiable , so why did she get this feeling of apprehension , as though he was playing some sort of waiting game ? |
10 | Later , in June 1984 , he spoke of Oscar Wilde and James Dean in a similar light : ‘ James Dean , even though he was making enormous strides forward with his craft , was still incredibly miserable and obviously doomed . |
11 | Though he was to achieve some distinction as a watercolour artist , exhibiting at several galleries , he was to become better known through his voluntary work for the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( R.A.D.D. ) for which he was honorary secretary for many years . |