Example sentences of "although [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Shaun was more difficult as a personality , although I never had any fights with him myself .
2 ‘ Yes , he had a lot of very strong , incredibly positive influences on many artists , and I am one of those artists , although I never exchanged two words with him .
3 It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity .
4 During the struggle police said Annie Murphy injured her foot , although she later refused medical treatment .
5 Brown remained her adviser for over a decade , although she also sought occasional assistance from the painter ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v . ] .
6 Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow .
7 We were sharing a two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher .
8 He was pleased to find that both girls shared his taste in music , although they also liked sentimental ballads and dance music .
9 Although they only took 20 minutes to arrive , if George could have given a map reference , as well as his address , they could have got there that much sooner .
10 Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle .
11 Although they often used traditional remedies , they also associated them with their own poverty and neglect .
12 But although it clearly had dramatic effects on the nerves of Conservative Central Office there is no evidence of any major shift in voting intentions at that time .
13 The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way .
14 During the first decade it seems , on average , to have run below £200,000 , although it sometimes exceeded that figure .
15 Yakovlev devotes loving attention to the single , insignificant sovkhoz ( state farm ) in the whole area , although it only employed eleven people .
16 Although it once guaranteed good quality , now no one company holds an exclusive licence over the use of the name and the quality of the knives really does vary from brand to brand .
17 According to Mr Osborne , there was never any doubt that Phillip lived with Meli as a couple , although he also enjoyed other relationships .
18 It was an Imperial and he was so proud of it , although he sometimes had considerable difficulty in making it go .
19 Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one .
20 Although he consistently employed classical conventions in his designs , he also incorporated features reminiscent of the older indigenous style of English ecclesiastical architecture , and he was careful to make each church unique .
21 Bernard , however , realized that unless someone with a sound financial background took the company 's problems in hand , its continued existence was threatened , although he too showed little enthusiasm for the idea .
22 Although he still expressed private doubts about Lawrence , it was necessary for the public gesture to be made : Lawrence was , after all , part of that same generation of writers of which Eliot was now almost the sole representative .
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