Example sentences of "though [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Taking the rather obvious theme of the mother and child , for example , this is used over and over again by artists , though each time it must be expressed or interpreted in an individual way . |
2 | You know if you You know I ca n't stop feeling as though that morning he used that lorry as a weapon . |
3 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
4 | Coincidentally restrictions on helium sales from the USA also enter the Jones story too , though this time it is India rather than Germany that is involved . |
5 | Next , lift your hands several centimetres above your partner 's body and continue with the same sweeping movements , though this time you will be working on the etheric body . |
6 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
7 | She thought of Eileen as ‘ That one ’ , though these days she did n't dare say so . |
8 | The woman searches — though these days she does n't know it , matters of procreation being so far from anyone 's thoughts — for a good father for her young , adequate in looks , more than adequate as a provider ; the man searches for a good , kind and competent mother for his children , not such a dog as to make copulation a problem — both settle for the best he or she can do . |
9 | It is safe to say that Hans Haacke is the least likely of all artists ever to be commissioned to design a presidential memorial ( though one day he may himself be memorialised as founder of the Academy of Anti-Establishment Art ) . |
10 | It will be at least five years , Earle estimates , before users creep away from their mainframe dependencies , though recent research it has done shows 10% of major mainframe users do want to talk about downsizing their operations . |
11 | Depending on the actual manufacturing costs and screen quality , a low-end 1024 x 768 version is also possible though last week he and his cronies were reportedly deciding its fate . |
12 | Well worth 14 quid I 'd say , though next time I 'll make sure it 's a Kop ticket I get . |