Example sentences of "though she [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most irritating thing about Rytasha — and there were many — was that , though she does not speak their language , she presumes to teach them a spurious form of their own religion . |
| 2 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 3 | She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too . |
| 4 | ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’ |
| 5 | She 's gone into hospital and it might mean she 'll get better but I do n't wish her harm , Joe , even though she does n't deserve to be happy . ’ |
| 6 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 7 | This shows in the way she bustles around at coffee time , often scowling ( though she does n't realise it ) , peering over the work of others , like a strict teacher in a class of rowdy twelve-year-olds . |
| 8 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |
| 9 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
| 10 | Even though she does n't approve of giving in . |
| 11 | Suddenly she felt nervous , though she fought not to show it . |
| 12 | It looked as though she had not fractured his skull . |
| 13 | Mrs Scutt , being an old hospital bird , had no difficulty in translating Robins ' euphemistic message , or in placing Charlie , though she had not met him before . |
| 14 | He simply raised the volume of his voice slightly and continued as though she had not uttered . |
| 15 | Doug felt that , as his head of department , Mary was setting the agenda of the meetings , even though she had not seen the videos he made while teaching : ‘ There may be conflict there . |
| 16 | Though she had not pressed them , as her friend Lois pressed them in between the pages of her Bible . |
| 17 | At lunchtime he scowled at his sister who , wrapped in a dressing gown , fell on the sandwiches as though she had not eaten in weeks . |
| 18 | Sally-Anne sat down , and began to eat the bread and butter , home-made scones and Victoria sponge cake as though she had not eaten for weeks . |
| 19 | For Joan , though she had not recognized the fact until that instant when the words crossed her lips , had meant what she said . |
| 20 | Willed it at least , even though she had not carried it out . |
| 21 | She had whispered her own last goodbye at a Liverpool dockyard gate , though she had not known it . |
| 22 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 23 | It is as though she had not died but been transformed . |
| 24 | As she uttered these words she thought they sounded snide and insinuating , sarcastic even , though she had not meant them like that . |
| 25 | He ignored her words , exactly as though she had not spoken . |
| 26 | Gerald went on as though she had not spoken . |
| 27 | ‘ And my mother , ’ he continued crisply as though she had not spoken , ‘ did not need reminding of things that are best left forgotten . ’ |
| 28 | Though Ivan claimed success with women , despite or because of his natural handicaps , and Liz herself , though she had not slept with him , had on one occasion in the early years of her marriage to Charles found herself , to her own surprise , sitting on a table in a flat in Belsize Park Gardens with Ivan 's hand inside her bra . |
| 29 | He possibly through guilt at not stopping to give her a lift , though she had n't asked . |
| 30 | ‘ It had big eyes , ’ she said , which seemed to satisfy him , though she had n't noticed its eyes , merely the trembling flutter of the feathers through the thin towel as she caught it . |