Example sentences of "though he [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 3 | " He does n't look as though he had much to bother about , living here . " |
| 4 | The original plans were made by Telford ( q.v. ) though he had little to do with the canal 's construction . |
| 5 | The programme was continued both under Sir Keith Joseph ( though he had some initial misgivings ) and Patrick Jenkin . |
| 6 | I was surprised by how quickly he agreed to the meeting , as though he had some sort of obligation towards me . |
| 7 | Though he had few intellectual interests , he was fascinated by the lineage of ancient families , such as his own , even of those that had long lapsed into obscurity . |
| 8 | He did not look as though he had any money in his pockets at all . |
| 9 | I will not let Caliban make me immoral ; even though he deserves all my hatred and bitterness and an axe in his head . |
| 10 | Hopper held his own in a hard , heavy-hitting first round in which he took the fight to Parsons , even though he took some punishment . |
| 11 | Quine offers as examples of single-word sentences ‘ Red ’ , ‘ Rabbit ’ and ‘ The tide is out ’ , though he says that taken with maximum strictness only the first of these would qualify ( Quine , 1960 , p. 44 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Of the composition of the ‘ bench of bishops ’ ( again the exact expression ) he shook his head a little sadly , though he knew some of them well : I felt he was not so enthusiastic about William Temple , now Archbishop of Canterbury , as many of his fellow-writers were , however , grudgingly . |
| 14 | Lord Tennyson was a bit of a soppy old thing too , on the whole , though he wrote some not bad things about Lincolnshire dialect . |
| 15 | He spoke numerous languages , had travelled widely abroad , and was delighted by the prospect of our filming either the Toraja or the Bugis , though he expressed some misgivings about sailing any distance with the latter . |
| 16 | Though he began each day as before , in fear and trembling , he had found the courage to follow his own path . |
| 17 | But though he handles this well , Jordan fumbles everything else , mistiming the comedy and drawing an unbelievably bad performance out of de Niro . |
| 18 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 19 | Turgot , for example , though he denounced any form of despotism , was himself very authoritarian in his methods during his brief term as Controller-General of Finances in 1774–76 ; and even Rousseau was opposed only to the despotism of individuals , not of groups or collectivities . |
| 20 | Moreover , though he devotes several pages to a description of the work done in these oil refineries , Gallie does not address the question of whether the technology itself differs in the French as compared to the British plants , nor whether details of the work organisation itself differ in a non-random way between the two countries . |
| 21 | Though he extended these four levels into seventeen very specific levels of mechanisation , we need not concern ourselves here with that level of detail . |
| 22 | She wiped it hastily away ; Roman was n't hers to keep and , though he paid little attention to Dana , she was determined to have her own way , and Claudia knew that what Dana wanted she usually got . |
| 23 | But a candidate not so ear-marked may sink to an F or G anyway when it is found that his language though intelligible is not accurate , or that though he knows some historical terminology he uses it inappropriately . |
| 24 | Though he claimed all the peoples of Burma were now united he admitted that this unity ‘ is only in the initial stages … tender and fragile ’ . |
| 25 | ( It is strange : even though he has all the necessary information about them , terrestrial psychology is incomprehensible to him — the concept of love unfamiliar , so that he can not guess what a difficult situation he would create by his sincere , practical and well-intended question . ) |
| 26 | ‘ It does n't sound as though he has any luck at all ! ’ |
| 27 | Even though he exhibited less humour than Ibsen on a bad night , the frantic phone calls just mentioned — by the conquering Germans from Oslo to Berlin trying to get the importunate Foerer off their backs — offer clear elements of farce . |
| 28 | Though he delegated much of the work he always made the final selection choices . |
| 29 | In other parts of this small tomb he paints reclining banqueters , such as are constantly found on Etruscan tomb-walls and Greek vases , following the old conventions , though he puts much more variety into the expressive faces than is found anywhere else . |
| 30 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |