Example sentences of "though [pron] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At night , Daddy read to me , and though I had many books , there were only four I wished to hear . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was in Dinosaur I never though I had any real talent . |
| 4 | Anyhow , she set to and found the time to make one for me , even though she had such a large family to care for . |
| 5 | She was safe now , though she had new anxieties . |
| 6 | Making herself lean back into her walk as though she had all the time in the world , she paused to rubberneck at the clash of signs and scents and jingles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She felt tall and languid , heated as though she had drunk wine . |
| 10 | She was very lonely , though she had some friends and visits from relatives from time to time . |
| 11 | Green Arrow , in a very clean condition , was the banking engine , and even though she had some dozen trucks , had no trouble pushing my stricken train up the Tibshelf bank , proving her great power . |
| 12 | This filly looked as though she had some obstruction in her airflow . |
| 13 | I never received one from you , though you had many from me , of course . |
| 14 | Before we left the island for good though we had one last place to go . |
| 15 | " 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 . |
| 16 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 17 | even though they had that on , with having to march and run , and he were doing these fifteen miles half , well sort of jogging and running and with the forty |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ They were hooded , capped and masked , though they had crude Templar crosses painted on their cloaks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Even in Racer X , though they had identical equipment they still sounded totally different . |
| 22 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 23 | Reading a rightwing rather than a left-wing paper improved images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though it had little or no influence on images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 24 | Though it had little to differentiate itself from its colleagues , apart from double ring-grips at both head and foot , its construction was more elaborate than the standard framed and panelled model — thus it was more expensive and carried a certain snob value . |
| 25 | The BF on the other hand was named after the new Italian experiment in 1923 , even though it had little direct knowledge of the aims and ideas of Mussolini . |
| 26 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 27 | Sir Robert Cecil , then Governor of the society , was still not satisfied and he cancelled the current lease at Christmas 1597 , even though it had one and a half years to run . |
| 28 | The new machinery , though it had considerable defects , proved more efficient and much more flexible than the old . |
| 29 | He 'd looked as though he had expensive tastes . |
| 30 | Kimon 's prestige was still enough to get help voted , though he had first to beat back a prosecution for bribery over Thasos by Pericles . |