Example sentences of "[adv] though [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Long though I have lived , I never understand better as years pass .
2 As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious .
3 He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken .
4 ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’
5 Personally though I do n't mind hefty boots and would prefer to feel the greater support around my ankles offered by other boots in the High Country range .
6 So though he laughed at Mr Hellyer 's joke he was able to say , with perfect seriousness , ‘ It 's all right .
7 This may be so though I venture to doubt it .
8 So though I 'm officially on vacation , I 'm actually working .
9 So though I was a member of the Travellers ’ and did my serious entertaining there , for socialising I infinitely preferred ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’
10 So though it is hard to imagine the stealthy fighter-bombers , map-reading cruise missiles and pinpoint bombs that won the Gulf war being beaten by Brazilian , Chinese or Russian weapons for decades , there is a good argument for what will now in effect be an arms race by America against itself .
11 So though it wo n't provide a killing in one year , it may cut risk , he concludes .
12 So though it is perfectly practicable to take a trip to Heiden by car ( a direct road leads from Rorschach ) you would do much better to leave the car behind , go along to the station of the Rorschach-Heiden mountain railway near the harbour , take a cogwheel train , sit back in one of the red coaches and enjoy the gradually changing view .
13 So though it 's now Torvill and Dean PLUS Phil and Isabelle , it 's all right .
14 Much though we might sometimes like it to be otherwise , events unfold as they happen .
15 Much though my hon. Friend may dream about the days of beer and sandwiches , I should have thought that the Opposition were so besotted with Europe that it would have to be cafe and croissants , if that change ever came about .
16 And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days .
17 Much though I understand the worries expressed by residents of the district to be served by the hospital , one must also take account of the basis of their concern , and the misinformation which has caused their alarm .
18 I suppose inside though she would rather it was a Nigerian boy .
19 I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed ‘ otter ’ to ‘ other ’ , thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended .
20 ‘ I hit the fish and stright away though it was a good one , but my son Tony has never caught a pike so I handed him the rod , ’ said Lee .
21 It 's no good putting it off any longer though he 's been a great comfort to me , mind . ’
22 After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night .
23 Here is another equation , We wish to find what number I stands for , unc We have now " solved the equation " for You may well be thinking that all this working out is not needed since you can work out the answer in your head Very soon though you will be given problems too difficult to work out in your head , At that time you will have to use the method you re practising now ,
24 the three-vaned the best though I have no means of measuring aerodynamic efficiency .
25 Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation .
26 He made friends easily though he occasionally collected the odd hanger-on who I felt sure was only waiting for a Sheikhly hand-out .
27 They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long .
28 Come on lads , ever though we 've only lost once in 20 games , it 's upto 10 wins and 9 draws when we started with 5 wins on the trot .
29 Wonderfully , miraculously she was here , and lovely as ever though she looked tired .
30 Wallace had a seemingly good goal disallowed when Strachan was adjudged to be offside though there was an Oldham defender on the goal line when the shot was taken .
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