Example sentences of "though [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door opened straight into a cool wood-panelled living-room , which , though furnished with the most beautiful antiques , was comfortable and homely . |
| 2 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |
| 3 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 4 | There , as though hanging from the green hillside , is Waddon Manor , with its air of vanished glory and its sad seaward gaze . |
| 5 | For example , her most recent work involves a positive distancing — intimate objects as though shaken from the photographs appear in glass shoe boxes ready for inspection or classification . |
| 6 | Though received in the case before it , Danckwerts LJ said that the submission of such a document was ‘ wholly irregular and contrary to the practice of the court and … should not be allowed as a precedent for future proceedings ’ ( Rondel v. |
| 7 | Here the tailors and Merchant Taylors are counted together , though distinguished in the loan book . |
| 8 | But their patron , though ensconced in the Prime Minister 's palace , is clearly more estranged from the mainstream of Catholic politics than at any time in his 40-year career . |
| 9 | As Morse poured her drink ( and his ) , he heard her speaking in a dreamy , muted sort of voice , as though dumbfounded by the news she 'd heard . |
| 10 | " Le nord de l'Angleterre , c'est L'Ecosse , " said the man , flashing his even teeth at her , showing them as though to compensate for the deficiencies of his wit . |
| 11 | But be quick : pick up your phone or else gird up your loins , grab your staff and hie you like blazes , sprinting as though pursued by the fires of hell , to the Arts Theatre or the Festival box office , whereupon you should pawn your handbag or your jock strap — even your jewels , just as long as you succeed in laying claim to a seat . |
| 12 | Now , as though solaced by the memory she said , ‘ I have known times when the water went to ice . |
| 13 | The thought made him flush hot with embarrassment even though chilled to the marrow . |
| 14 | Though chilled to the marrow , Karelius was otherwise not in too bad shape . |
| 15 | However , her books , though absorbing to the adult reader , are difficult to revive for the young of another generation because of their preoccupation ( even greater than that of her female contemporaries ) with social status . |
| 16 | Half way through Edward gave up , scraped the rest into Tam 's food bowl and put the kettle on for a cup of tea ; behind him , Tam slurped as though rescued from the brink of starvation . |
| 17 | For this portico , though designed in the manner for porches attached to buildings , is by virtue of its starkly isolated position a genuine military arc de triomphe . |
| 18 | My car is clamped two hours before we are to leave for Holyhead , though lifted within the hour , after much persuasion and a torrid sobbing session at the clamping office . |
| 19 | There are a number of additional provisions , some more complex than others , allowing tenders to be made against contracts which , though made on the market , have not yet been registered by LCH ; and providing for unusual contracts under which delivery has to be initiated by the buyer . |
| 20 | They stood arm-in-arm , back to the traffic , as though looking over the railway lines , and Alice , holding the spray low down , wrote , " We Are All … " which is as far as she could go without having to move . |
| 21 | Though chaired by the latitudinarian Anglican , and radical , manufacturer Thomas Walker , it contained a number of Rational Dissenters in the professions — lawyers and doctors — several of whom had an intellectual bent and were active in the discussions of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , a significant regional conduit for Enlightenment thinking . |
| 22 | Conscription , though operated on the German model , produced more problems than solutions , since units of a racial group had to be allocated to positions where they would not have to engage their kinsmen across the border . |
| 23 | Cultural marginality refers to a different set of values , lifestyle and cultural patterns from the urban environment , thus suggesting that migrants may still have rural attitudes and traditions though living in the town . |
| 24 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 25 | So after a year 's preliminary investigation they moved the charter and their centre of government to Boston ( Massachusetts , though named after the East Anglian port ) in 1630 and made it clear that they intended to cut off all official connection with the English government . |
| 26 | She said it with an almost questioning tone , as though listening to the sound of her own defiance to gauge how real it was . |
| 27 | For a moment he launched himself upon them alone , and Owen closed with him gladly against the glare , though dazzled by the flickering gleams and blinking shadows . |
| 28 | He conceded it was possible for such items , though manufactured in the Soviet Union , to fall into the hands of outsiders . |
| 29 | Without its even being necessary to resolve the question of the hierarchy of legislation which is implicit in this argument , I consider that it must be rejected , since even though according to the Preamble to the Geneva Convention of 1958 its provisions are ‘ generally declaratory of established principles of international law , ’ I do not consider the United Kingdom 's statement to be well founded . |
| 30 | Even Gollum , though seen by the elves , vanishes ‘ down the Silverlode southward ’ , i.e. on the far bank , and according to Aragorn has followed the Fellowship only ‘ right down to Nimrodel ’ . |