Example sentences of "though [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] 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 she 'd heard that victims of attack often suffered from delayed repercussions — depression and sleeplessness amongst them — neither had struck her yet .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He had ‘ mounted to the top of impiety ’ , even though he had known that ‘ the minister is the people 's Looking-glass ’ .
8 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 .
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