Example sentences of "though [pron] have [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 | Then he said : ‘ If it sounds as though I 've said that before , you 're right . |
| 4 | I shall base my account largely on what secondary schoolteachers have to say , though I have found that the picture is easily recognizable , with some modification to the details , by those working in both primary and further and higher education as well . |
| 5 | Though she 'd heard that victims of attack often suffered from delayed repercussions — depression and sleeplessness amongst them — neither had struck her yet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( Though you have to remember that an ‘ unsuccessful ’ medium may just have been misused in previous attempts . ) |
| 12 | It 's as though you have to show that you — ’ |
| 13 | Our questionnaire form clearly insists that rates quoted must include VAT and landing fees , though we have noticed that some clubs do manage accidentally-on-purpose to leave these out . |
| 14 | Very often we shall also have the names of the major part of the actual occupiers , though we have to remember that sub-tenants were not usually recorded . |
| 15 | Previous studies have not investigated the role of population mixing in the Dounreay-Thurso area , though they have shown that the excess of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma there can not be attributed to paternal nuclear employment or irradiation before the child 's conception . |
| 16 | Although Mexico was not an OPEC member in November 1984 it cut exports in line with OPEC reductions to help maintain prices and has generally taken care not to step out of line , though it has stated that it would act unilaterally to defend its market position . |
| 17 | He said that he wrote stories , though he had to admit that he had never got further than the first two pages . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had ‘ mounted to the top of impiety ’ , even though he had known that ‘ the minister is the people 's Looking-glass ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |