Example sentences of "although [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've never been scared to wear hats , although I know some people are . |
2 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
3 | ‘ I do get nervous and do really dumb things , although I think some men actually like that . ’ |
4 | I like the way they splice on their headstocks ( almost invisibly underneath the headstock facing ) but not the way they make up the depth of the heel with a very different-coloured piece of mahogany — although I suppose some people might . |
5 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
6 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
7 | Quite how the storm is generated is still something that we 're investigating , although we have some idea of what causes its generation . |
8 | We have received no formal approaches of this sort although we believe some organisations may have expressed some informal interest to DTI . |
9 | Although we found some firewood in the woods behind the hut , it was bitterly cold . |
10 | Although they admit some doubt as to the exact mode of formation , King and Williams suggest that a swash bar is formed at low tide , that this bar is overrun by the tide , which produces a series of similar swash bars as it advances up the beach . |
11 | And although they felt some roads would be too narrow , committee members on Thursday gave it their general support . |
12 | Despite the trials of many peasants in 1922 , the Nikol'skaia villagers tolerated the party cell although they disliked some individuals within it . |
13 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
14 | Although it retains some features in common with the ‘ orthodox account ’ it also departs from it significantly , especially in its emphasis on the importance of ‘ justice ’ within prisons . |
15 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
16 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
17 | This is not the same as assessing its impact on the value of the company , although it makes some attempt to do this , as will be described shortly . |
18 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
19 | ON the eve of the most crucial test yet for Russia 's radical reforms , President Yeltsin made clear yesterday he would not cede any of his emergency powers to parliament , although he said some aspects of his economic programme would be softened . |
20 | Although he sees some decline in the numbers of the petty bourgeoisie ( the small property owners ) due to competition from large companies , he argues that they enter white-collar or skilled manual trades rather than being depressed into the ranks of unskilled manual workers . |
21 | Although he captured some knights and burned down the town , he was unable to take the castle . |