Example sentences of "though [pers pn] [verb] [that] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sha n't come criticising your healing methods , though I gather that some of them leave much to be desired , so I 'd be obliged if you left well alone in my field . ’ |
| 2 | Magnitudes have been given to only one-tenth , because it is almost impossible for the naked-eye or binocular observer to distinguish differences of less than this ( though I agree that some people claim to be able to do so ; I certainly can not ) . |
| 3 | I do hope that it will be possible for you to participate in this exercise , even though I realise that many demands are made on people 's time . |
| 4 | In my view the transmitter is far better positioned on the ferret 's collar , though I acknowledge that some other people prefer for their own reasons to trail the transmitter on the line some twelve inches behind the ferret . |
| 5 | They look good , too , of course , though I think that more consideration should be given the neck joints in both cases . |
| 6 | The judgment of the common reader should never be ignored , though I realize that this poem is easier to follow than most . |
| 7 | Agnes never took part in such conversations ; she never spoke badly of Paul , even though she sensed that this alienated her somewhat from other women . |
| 8 | And though she recognized that some of it was rebellion at the hours of inactivity , she could not ignore her bladder . |
| 9 | Western diplomats in Luanda scoff at that figure , though they admit that many do need help . |
| 10 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 11 | The Germans and Italians say a team of European politicians should go to negotiate the release of hostages , even though they agree that such trips should be condemned . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the United States said it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , though it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |
| 13 | In all his work he addresses not just those who are enclosed as religious solitaries with special time for attention to their inner development — though he admits that this life-style is most conducive to it — but all those who are predisposed to pursue an inner life . |
| 14 | Though he argued that any attempt to lay down rigid rules for classifying applications would be doomed to failure' , Dobry thought that guidance should be given in a national code of practice . |