Example sentences of "although [pers pn] [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home , and although I did not want to , I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights . |
| 2 | I was pleased that he could come , although I did not want him to discover anything about my horrible work . |
| 3 | Although I did not relish such conditions I reached the final quite easily ; but then disaster struck . |
| 4 | Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed . |
| 5 | Although I did not conduct field research in Nigeria , I visited that country in 1975 , 1978 and 1981 . |
| 6 | Although I did not get this trouble with my machines , we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer . |
| 7 | Although I did not know it , my encounter with Gladstone Murray and Ernie Bushnell in February was beginning to bear fruit , and my days as newspaperman cum radio programme director were numbered . |
| 8 | Southerton , writing under a byline , would probably have been able to speak his mind about the general atmosphere , although I did not know that his attitude to bodyline would be . |
| 9 | It looked pretty dull to me , although I did not say so . |
| 10 | She learnt , from my saying , ‘ Here ’ , where I was , although I did not say where I was . |
| 11 | I saw no bodies , although I did not doubt that many people had drowned . |
| 12 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 13 | Although I did not understand I could see that they were discussing the problem . |
| 14 | The adult Eileen was quite intelligent enough to understand the devastating effects of those careless words on the child she had been — although she did not blame her mother in any way for using them . |
| 15 | Theodora was surprised , although she did not show it . |
| 16 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 17 | But there were other things , things she remembered hearing had happened , although she did not want to alarm her daughter by warning her against them . |
| 18 | Although she did not watch the videos he made , through discussion she was able to help him to gain control of a class which had initially been ‘ unteachable ’ and to design a workcard and organize lessons in a planned way . |
| 19 | She uses her twelve ( or eighteen ) arms and all available weapons to dispense and destroy evil , although she did not relish inflicting pain or death . |
| 20 | Her house was always freezing cold in winter , although she did not seem to notice it . |
| 21 | ( Although she did not seem so very surprised . ) |
| 22 | Although she did not seem to be listening , Dexter knew from experience that she would remember everything important he had told her . |
| 23 | Her eyelids flickered , although she did not train their stare upon her visitors . |
| 24 | Cornwallis-West became enamoured of Mrs Campbell ; this was the effective end of his marriage to Jennie , although she did not divorce him until 1913 , when she reverted to the name of Lady Randolph Churchill . |
| 25 | Although she did not know he had sex with Miss A in a bathroom above his Harley Street surgery , she claimed she did not feel threatened by another of his affairs . |
| 26 | Alix , although she did not know it , was pregnant . |
| 27 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 28 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
| 29 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 30 | Although she did not look at Jake , she could feel he was watching her and that he knew what had stopped her dead in her tracks . |