Example sentences of "though [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door . |
| 2 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 3 | At night , Daddy read to me , and though I had many books , there were only four I wished to hear . |
| 4 | Her lips were red , half-open as if waiting to be kissed , displaying teeth as white as ivory , though I noticed one tooth slightly out of line with the others . |
| 5 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 6 | ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit . |
| 7 | He lowered his head , kissing her angrily , and she fought him , struggling beneath him as he kept her trapped , even though she offered such resistance to what he knew so deeply she had wanted from the beginning . |
| 8 | She remained in Paris during World War I , though she made frequent trips to the Brittany coast , where she did profoundly moving drawings of children . |
| 9 | She was safe now , though she had new anxieties . |
| 10 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 11 | Thus , though she had little intention of responding more than politely to any of the advances , she enjoyed the game : it made her feel human . |
| 12 | She felt tall and languid , heated as though she had drunk wine . |
| 13 | She was very lonely , though she had some friends and visits from relatives from time to time . |
| 14 | This filly looked as though she had some obstruction in her airflow . |
| 15 | ‘ Eighteen months ago , Mistress Deveril , though she used another name , left Gascony and landed at Dover . |
| 16 | She knew that Tamar had a core of steel and , though she loved this daughter as devotedly as the rest of her offspring , recognised that there was a degree of hardness in her ! |
| 17 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 18 | Now though she stifled that feeling and gave herself up to the joy of being in his arms and hearing how long and how deeply he had loved her . |
| 19 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
| 20 | Even though we spent that money we are projected to come in with balances of three million pounds in excess of the budget figure set by the Conservatives , and that is a six million pounds difference that 's come straight out of the twenty-four and I think it tells us two things . |
| 21 | Though we found little evidence of heavier drinking in our cases compared with controls ( mean stated intake 46.3 against 40.5 units/week ) , a causal role for alcohol has clearly been established by larger studies . |
| 22 | Though they produced some statuary in Classical and Hellenistic styles they were not copyists . |
| 23 | The experiences were interpreted quite differently , even though they produced remarkable resemblances in character . |
| 24 | The Royal Navy had had ample warning that Jones was putting to sea again but , guarding the door of the already raided stable , was patrolling the Cumberland coast , while he made his way round the far side of Ireland and soon reports were reaching London of his activities in Irish waters on the early stages of his voyage , though they took several weeks to arrive . |
| 25 | While Yearsley is not to be disregarded , Collier , Leapor , and Hands produced better poetry , though they attracted less attention . |
| 26 | During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company . |
| 27 | That , in turn , meant that quality came built-in : though they had fewer workers looking after quality control , the best companies had fewer defects and less waste . |
| 28 | ‘ They were hooded , capped and masked , though they had crude Templar crosses painted on their cloaks . |
| 29 | They would see a precipitous rise in taxes even though they had high outgoings and despite the fact their income was barely above the combined average earnings for two adults ( approximately £35,000 ) , or even below it . |
| 30 | ‘ Even in Racer X , though they had identical equipment they still sounded totally different . |