Example sentences of "although [pron] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 2 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
| 3 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |
| 4 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 5 | Although I knew most of these countries from my naval days , the perspective one gains visiting the coasts of a country as a sailor is very different from the view of the businessman . |
| 6 | The 1970 show at the Tate was somewhat restricted in that , although I showed some ‘ Ulysses ’ drawings as an introduction and some early Fifties paintings , it really began with 1956 . |
| 7 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 8 | it 's me , although I did that , make , make that mistake , right , yes , go on |
| 9 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 10 | Although I worked all that day , by the evening I realised that all I 'd produced was about fifteen pages of a rather bad Agatha Christie spoof . |
| 11 | Even his appearance annoyed Benny , although she knew this was unreasonable . |
| 12 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 13 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 14 | Although she showed little interest in my academic life — her energies were spent in the pursuit of foxes and Guards officers — she was always brimful of common sense on every subject under the sun , not to mention having constant contact with a string of eligible young men who seemed to arrive in a never-ending convoy at the front door of 97 Chelsea Terrace . |
| 15 | She remained sedated and in a critical condition throughout Tuesday 7 July although she showed some slight improvement . |
| 16 | without recall or recourse , although you had both , |
| 17 | In the second section , although you noted some of the imagery and discussed it intelligently , you often moved too far away from the imagery itself and relied on an ‘ outside ’ view of the poem ( what you thought it must be about ) to interpret it . |
| 18 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 19 | Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits . |
| 20 | Although we had little to eat , the water held out , and we bathed Father 's wounds , which were beginning to look nasty . |
| 21 | The fans are more fanatical and although we had some great times at Goodison , this could be something else . |
| 22 | A small group of professionals , myself included , selected those books which we believed should be saved at all costs but , although we did this as conscientiously as possible , our combined subject knowledge was at best partial and it is inevitable that some books worthy of preservation were overlooked … |
| 23 | Although we found some firewood in the woods behind the hut , it was bitterly cold . |
| 24 | Her mood was back to normal , although there remained some problems over her finances , and the legal situation was not entirely sorted out . |
| 25 | By the end of the century American railways were largely in the hands of ten large companies ( although there remained several hundred small ones ) commanded by railway versions of merchant princes . |
| 26 | Cookstown sprung into life after this and although they played some flowing football they just could not penetrate a resolute Ballymoney defence until that is the 40th minute when a bad blunder from the Ballymoney goalkeeper Merchant presented Alan Shaw with a simple tap in from only five yards . |
| 27 | Traders and shopkeepers there were not capitalists , although they accepted that definition of themselves in their defence of free enterprise . |
| 28 | Some of the rebel leaders , notably Litster , may have appreciated their military weakness , because they attempted to involve members of the gentry in the revolt , and although they had little support of this nature , the very fact that they hoped to obtain it must argue against an interpretation of the revolt simply in class terms . |
| 29 | Bergkamp equalised for Ajax a minute after the interval although they had several opportunities to add to their score . |
| 30 | Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day . |