Example sentences of "though [pers pn] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hoped to impress her , and , though I knew this was the wrong way to go about it , since she was always embarrassed by emotional arguments , when she replied in a stiff , rather guarded way , I was deeply hurt on his behalf . |
| 2 | I always take a lot of care plumbing the depth , and even though I know this peg well , I will plumb it again . |
| 3 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 4 | Even now I 'm struggling to stop myself going for a jaunt around the room though I know this will inevitably lead to me lying on my bed or sitting on the floor in a mesmerised , trancelike way and staring into nothingness as if stoned . |
| 5 | Herbert Kretzmer wrote in the Daily Express that he heard a voice call out , ‘ Rubbish ’ — to which he himself responded : ‘ Though I find this kind of boorishness both repulsive and depressing I am bound to state that the solitary heckler was probably articulating a mood felt by many . |
| 6 | It began to feel — though I suppose this is true to the essential beauty of all sport — that we were working together , the four of us , for the love of the game . |
| 7 | There remains a couple of concerns even though I think this pattern will serve . |
| 8 | Selection for the trip involved an interview for every candidate and , for some , an assessment weekend , though I missed this as I was a late entrant . |
| 9 | She was getting her Literary Letter ready to post , though she denied this , and said she was hurrying to finish the Glass Coffin for the book of tales . |
| 10 | She would rather talk to Pilade though she knew this was only a sophisticated way of talking to herself . |
| 11 | She knew that Tamar had a core of steel and , though she loved this daughter as devotedly as the rest of her offspring , recognised that there was a degree of hardness in her ! |
| 12 | Can I just point out though you see this , the difference between NUPE and NALGO and that , we have n't got a problem . |
| 13 | Even though they knew this lot were all actors , they were transfixed . |
| 14 | Forms do not then merely passively reflect or represent " ways of life " ( though they do this too ) ; crucially they enable or curtail forms of living ( producing , reproducing ) . |
| 15 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |
| 16 | Because the glass in a greenhouse traps the sun 's energy ( though it does this mainly by inhibiting convection , thereby stopping warm air rising and escaping ) , this process has come to be known as the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ . |
| 17 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 18 | He told her of the visit to the farm , reminded her of the discovery of the swan and the bird 's skull ( though he knew this was taking a chance after her first , alarming reaction to the news ) , and mentioned again the note and the feather in his room . |
| 19 | But though he handles this well , Jordan fumbles everything else , mistiming the comedy and drawing an unbelievably bad performance out of de Niro . |
| 20 | Putting his hands in his pockets , and trying to look as though he did this every day , he fixed his eyes on the target . |