Example sentences of "though [pron] [vb past] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I 'd learned that the black abaya dropped the temperature by degrees , and though I 'd worn both veil and coat at various odd times , such as in storms , or in the desert heat , the sight of a European woman in such an outfit on an ordinary day in a compound or town would be more than anyone , including myself , could take . |
| 2 | Mark : I suppose the point at which my public coming out started was 1976–7 , though I 'd known that I was gay from a much earlier age . |
| 3 | Though I did notice that there was pine and oak in his house and not mahogany . ’ |
| 4 | Though she 'd heard that victims of attack often suffered from delayed repercussions — depression and sleeplessness amongst them — neither had struck her yet . |
| 5 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 6 | She was determined that there would be no reconciliation , and even though she had found that the sound of his voice reminded her vividly and immediately that she had loved him and could do so again she lay smiling with pleasure at the sheer satisfaction of unforgivingness . |
| 7 | Leith vetoed the idea before he could voice it — though she had to admit that the idea of living and working in London did have tremendous appeal . |
| 8 | It took Daphne several attempts to explain what ‘ riding to hounds ’ actually meant , though she had to admit that even Eliza Doolittle would have been hard pushed to understand fully why they bothered with the exercise in the first place . |
| 9 | Another tangled virgin called on her for help against a dragon , called on her though she had thought that her time was past and the dragons had all departed . |
| 10 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 11 | Mr Baker was not entirely wrong in wanting a simple , forceful document for parents , though he failed to understand that some difficult issues — the teaching of grammar or Standard English , for example — need careful and detailed explanation . |
| 12 | He said that he wrote stories , though he had to admit that he had never got further than the first two pages . |
| 13 | He resented the automatic assumption that he would look after Elaine , even though he had to admit that he was so tired and amazed that even scribbling in a notebook or commenting on the decoration were beyond his capabilities . |
| 14 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 15 | He had ‘ mounted to the top of impiety ’ , even though he had known that ‘ the minister is the people 's Looking-glass ’ . |
| 16 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 17 | Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established . |
| 18 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 19 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 20 | He suggested that , in the vast majority of cases , the procedure was accessible to unrepresented appellants ( though he did concede that they should receive assistance ) and that it would be undesirable to extend legal aid generally to cover such appeals ( Micklethwait , 1976 ) . |