Example sentences of "although [pron] did [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have found it very tiresome , although I did sing in tune , and I 'm afraid went through several verses . |
| 2 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 3 | But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried . |
| 4 | I did as I was told , although I did go off it once , I confess , to watch a lad from Leeds ferreting for rabbits . |
| 5 | I felt fine — refreshed almost — my leg a little sore but not enough to impede me , although I did wonder at the wisdom of the ‘ cute red heels and hose ’ as I wriggled my feet into the 4-inch-high stilettos . |
| 6 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 7 | Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not . |
| 8 | We may not have been able to stop the legislation ( although we did succeed in reducing its scope ) , but we let the world know that we remained strong and proud and shameless . |
| 9 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
| 10 | Again different results were found in different places , although there did seem to be some agreement on a broad division between those ‘ helpful ’ pressure groups that gained access to the policy-making process and those ‘ unhelpful ’ , or ‘ unreasonable ’ , groups whose actions were treated by the local authority with suspicion and dismissal . |
| 11 | It is now going to be very difficult for the Lions to win this series , although they did come from the same position to win the series four years ago in Australia . |
| 12 | Structuralists did not believe in examining the text in relation to society — although they did believe in examining the relationships within texts and between texts — nor in examining it as a work with moral significance ; the aim was simply to lay bare the universal structures which were hidden within it . |
| 13 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 14 | One recent population study found that depression did not precede the eating disorder , although it did correlate with onset . |
| 15 | Matters did not improve when they got to Glenelg and found an appalling inn — although it did draw from Johnson one of his best remarks of the entire tour . |
| 16 | Fleischmann discussed radiation with them , aware that if fusion was indeed happening in the cell there could be significant health risks although he did seem to be feeling all right . |
| 17 | But relations between the quiet , let's-get-on-with-it Cooder and the not entirely sane Captain proved too much of a strain , and after this brief walk on the wild side Ry immersed himself in session work — much of it bread-and-butter stuff , although he did play for Randy Newman and Phil Ochs , began to learn about music for films , and became a friend of The Stones , a period he does not generally discuss . |