Example sentences of "though it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
2 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
3 | And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) . |
4 | The King Edward VI grammar school is one of the most ancient in the country and is known to have been an educational institution from at least 1276 , though it received its Royal Charter in 1551 . |
5 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
6 | Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’ |
7 | Julian watched them , and every moment of watching only confirmed his election , though it set him another league away from her . |