Example sentences of "though [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , as though hanging from the green hillside , is Waddon Manor , with its air of vanished glory and its sad seaward gaze . |
| 2 | Kleinwort last month reported a decline in pre-tax profits of almost £5m to £30.1m in the first half , though recovering from loss in the previous six months . |
| 3 | ‘ Not beyond what he could hold , ’ said the Archdeacon firmly , as though stamping on a particularly pernicious untruth . |
| 4 | Horton broke off and looked at Wycliffe as though apologising for boring him . |
| 5 | Just as an earlier generation of social survey researchers in Britain had made use of developments in statistics , so did the post-war generation of social scientists in the United States , though building on work done prior to this period . |
| 6 | She skidded to a halt , threw her leg over the saddle as though dismounting from a charger , and began to harangue Hugh in words he did n't understand . |
| 7 | However , her books , though absorbing to the adult reader , are difficult to revive for the young of another generation because of their preoccupation ( even greater than that of her female contemporaries ) with social status . |
| 8 | Penry closed his eyes tightly as though praying for patience . |
| 9 | She moved her right hand , and made contact with something which slid into her hand as though wanting to be there . |
| 10 | It was a typical loner 's situation — the depressive who , though wanting to be alone , worried about having no one around and was so grateful to feel wanted . |
| 11 | They stood arm-in-arm , back to the traffic , as though looking over the railway lines , and Alice , holding the spray low down , wrote , " We Are All … " which is as far as she could go without having to move . |
| 12 | David Pegler , a former England B captain , would come under consideration as a replacement after his outstanding season with London Irish , though looking outside Ireland again for a player would fuel controversy . |
| 13 | A darkly florid officer with black moustache walked briskly through the debris , gazing round as though looking for someone . |
| 14 | She opened the rear door and looked in as though looking for something she had mislaid . |
| 15 | In this recording the orchestra is in the foreground most of the time ; and during this time we often hear the singers as though looking at them on stage through inverter opera glasses , where they are distinct but tiny . |
| 16 | Slater sighed , looked Sara up and down , Graham 's heart , or his guts , something deep inside him , ached , as Slater went on , " Not for me , of course , though looking at Sara I almost wish I was a lesbian , sometimes . " |
| 17 | It was , not surprisingly , the wettest June this century Against this background , New Scientist was fairly tranquil , printing articles on conserving the New Forest and the wilds of Snowdonia and finding out that , though meeting with difficulties , few women in science would have changed circumstances particularly . |
| 18 | Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions . |
| 19 | For a long , endless moment he gazed into her eyes as though searching for answers , then he released her . |
| 20 | He held her away to arm 's length , his kindly brown eyes sweeping her face as though searching for clues . |
| 21 | Actually , I find snowdrops rather insipid , ’ he admitted as though searching for an excuse for his negative attitude . |
| 22 | Though living with his father in Dearborn , near Detroit , Kalid visited his mother and grandfather in the Bekaa Valley several times a year , a family duty providing him with perfect cover for the job of courier in the DEA 's stepped-up programme of controlled heroin deliveries . |
| 23 | Tim Grubb , who has kept his British nationality , though living in New Jersey , and his 11-year-old Ever , qualified for the jump-off with a fine clear round . |
| 24 | Cultural marginality refers to a different set of values , lifestyle and cultural patterns from the urban environment , thus suggesting that migrants may still have rural attitudes and traditions though living in the town . |
| 25 | From 1969 the direction and administration of programmes was handed over to an African organisation ( SEPA ) with its headquarters in Accra , though training for Science Educators is offered under its auspices at Njala , Sierra Leone . |
| 26 | Though dating from some fifteen years later , this ‘ Madonna ’ bears a relationship to Lehman 's Matteo . |
| 27 | As I have sought to show in the present chapter , the philosophical grounds on which individualism is defended , though compelling at first sight , are in fact open to doubt . |
| 28 | She said it with an almost questioning tone , as though listening to the sound of her own defiance to gauge how real it was . |
| 29 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 30 | ( Artist 's heart now sinks at thought of fifteen-hour day on account of two ideas leading to twenty permutations of two-line scene : ‘ But Richard — ’ ‘ Yes , I know , but the thing is — er — let me put this another way ’ ( so far he has n't put it anyway ) — ‘ Look — ’ ( He freezes mid-pace , cocks his head as though listening to an external sound — which indeed he is — draws a deep breath through his nose , rolls up his eyes , turns down the corners of his mouth , then , forgetting to expel air because a new thought has struck him , he gasps : ) ‘ I 'll tell you what , right ? |