Example sentences of "though [pron] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door . |
| 2 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 3 | I just find such people strange though I admit some , like Marlowe , have been great friends . |
| 4 | These are intense , dramatic readings which lack nothing in conviction , though I imagine some listeners will prefer a less overtly ‘ expressive ’ approach to the music . |
| 5 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'm a broadcaster , ’ said the presenter of the BBC Radio Cleveland early morning show , ‘ though I suppose some people would say that 's debatable . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe it 's in the museum , though I think some of the better finds went to the town museum in Silcaster . ’ |
| 8 | Though she spent some 70 years in the limelight , Miss Hayes said she had no regrets about her career choice . |
| 9 | She was very lonely , though she had some friends and visits from relatives from time to time . |
| 10 | Green Arrow , in a very clean condition , was the banking engine , and even though she had some dozen trucks , had no trouble pushing my stricken train up the Tibshelf bank , proving her great power . |
| 11 | This filly looked as though she had some obstruction in her airflow . |
| 12 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 13 | Yeah , do n't you feel as though you take some care of them . |
| 14 | Though we knew some of the teaching was abysmal . ’ |
| 15 | The new categories may also resolve the problem of how to accommodate other industry bodies and organisations like the Open Software Foundation within its ranks , though there remain some formidable political obstacles in the way of OSF and X/Open resuming their relationship . |
| 16 | Though they produced some statuary in Classical and Hellenistic styles they were not copyists . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not into yuppy-jazz , so I 'd never get asked to Jazz Café , though they get some good people there . ’ |
| 18 | While militarily strong and able to protect themselves from threat both from without and within Egypt , the mamluks were inefficient rulers , and , though they left some magnificent architecture , by the later thirteenth century there was a series of revolts , plagues and famines . |
| 19 | In contrast with their younger counterparts , some of whom at least could hope realistically for the possibility of promotion , the older field men have little ambition , though they retain some sense of mission . |
| 20 | She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow . |
| 21 | The present situation , therefore , even though it allows some fudging of extraordinary items , must be far from perfect from Mr Damant 's point of view . |
| 22 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 23 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 24 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 25 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 26 | In the three month experiment , unlikely rural topics like cot death , abortion , murder and villagers ' fight against toxic waste dumping are shown , though it seems some episodes will be cut as only four episodes a week are planned . |
| 27 | Though it claimed some influence upon the councils of action in the North East and in London , its impact was minimal . |
| 28 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 29 | I therefore reject the argument on behalf of the appellants in this case , that the Home Secretary is obliged to follow the judges ' views as to the requirements of retribution and deterrence in mandatory life sentence cases , even though it allowed some exceptions . |
| 30 | Though he got some support from Board members Hilary Wainwright and Vella Pillay of the Bank of China ( who changed his mind and agreed that Sutton had to go as soon as he saw Pilger 's pages ) , there was no real point . |