Example sentences of "though [pers pn] [vb base] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Though I do blame Bernard , for getting himself mixed up with ethnic minorities .
2 This is imminent , though I do feel we should really proceed anyway .
3 I do n't look down on arts students , though I do moan about their empty timetables , but then , someone doing a German degree , no way could I do that , I have the greatest respect for them .
4 Though I do remember at one charity event the stage was invaded by all these uninvited , ageing rock stars only the older members of the audience could remember who they were ! ’
5 No , perhaps that 's unfair ; I do not know precisely who , precisely when , precisely what ; though I do know that Gustave was never tired of double ententes about la pipe .
6 Though I do believe a cow once was maimed .
7 Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies .
8 We are not Americans , even though I do hate the way we sometimes run around them like the little brother .
9 You have to start from your roots — though I do enjoy ethnic music .
10 The piece has grown on me , though I do wonder if there is any prejudice towards marquetry made of many pieces of veneer
11 ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) .
12 This seems to me a very sound argument ; though I do wonder to how many cases of literary mistake it actually applies .
13 Though I do wonder … ’
14 Maybe this year I 'll finally manage it if I begin now , though I do have other special presents to make too !
15 ( Though I do have a friend — Bunny — who always insists on a female doctor or nurse if he has anything wrong of a private nature .
16 I ca n't promise to answer them individually , though I do try to if the knitter concerned seems in need of an urgent answer .
17 She 's a great ship , and we 've got a pretty good medical team , even though I do say so myself .
18 I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away .
19 Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men .
20 My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way .
21 Though you do make it sound like running up a cotton frock .
22 And even though you do look like her , and probably even more like the way she did at our age , I ca n't see that being enough to inspire him with over-confidence in you as a special .
23 Though you do have cheerleader legs .
24 This invaluable extra feature adds little to the overall weight and bulk of the AF-1 , though you do lose the AF-1 's fast-recycling flash and close-up facility .
25 But you ca n't argue with the propulsion of ‘ No Hard Shoulder To Cry On ’ , the inventiveness of ‘ Slow Rider ’ and the odyssey inscribed in ‘ Safe Surfer ’ ( though you do worry when Cope loses it in the mid-section ) .
26 The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges .
27 Fan Jules Bevis explained : ‘ We love Barnet too much to stay away , though we do want Flashman to go . ’
28 In order to ‘ do things with words ’ either actively , as language producers , or passively , as language understanders , we clearly need more tools than the formal language system , though we do need that too .
29 Toddlers comes to new mums and mobile mums , ( though we do ask mums to make sure that the toddlers take special care of the littler ones ) .
30 It 's also easy to care for as it can be hand or machine washed at 40°C , though we do recommend that you iron it on the reverse side while still damp .
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