Example sentences of "yet at the same time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 2 | His deliberately quiet voice , and the apparent detachment with which his hands were moving over her body , frightened her and yet at the same time heightened the eroticism of the moment . |
| 3 | For many British people of my generation , the sight of great ships sailing for a remote theatre of action , their rails lined with cheering soldiers , at once evoked echoes of convoys leaving for Africa or the Far East , yet at the same time produced surprise at the media coverage and the openness with which these preparatory stages , and indeed the later fighting , appeared to be reported . |
| 4 | The word was said with such vehemence , yet at the same time sounded so funny , that he almost laughed . |
| 5 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 6 | Quite convinced that meeting you would dispel the fantasy , and yet at the same time did n't want that to happen at all . |