Example sentences of "and yet when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 2 | Her marriage was on the rocks , she had had a breakdown , her social life was in ruins and yet when she came to ask for his help she was wearing a sweatshirt which had the slogan on it , ‘ Christ is the answer ’ . |
| 3 | Nothing , however , flew , and yet when he opened the closed hand , it was empty . |
| 4 | Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks . |
| 5 | Everyone who comes here at once delights in the surroundings , and yet when those periods were upon me , nothing could brighten my day nor lift the gloom . |
| 6 | ‘ And yet when the time came for me to go to her , I hesitated . |
| 7 | ‘ And yet when you were sick and hungry , wanderin' through the streets , you had reached the point when you thought life was not worth livin' . |
| 8 | And yet when it comes to what is happening under your own nose and under your own roof , you 're blind ! |
| 9 | A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour . |
| 10 | Others with higher sail loadings and lower lift coefficients are generally faster in acceleration and yet when line tension is relaxed , will for example , make controlled landings at will . |
| 11 | And yet when it was mentioned that she narrated on Jeff Wayne 's album Spartacus , she stormed , ‘ It is not a pop album . |
| 12 | And yet when justifying the shedding of the Buckfastleigh line as recently as 1990 , the DVR Company 's General Manager publicly claimed the original Dart Valley line was uneconomic ; losing £100,000 a year , and a financial drain on the Torbay line 's profitability ! |
| 13 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 14 | And yet when you check the four tracks when the Horde switch gear , you also learn that they are n't frivolous good-time emotional escapologists . |
| 15 | Adolescence is accepted as a time to explore and experiment and find some sense of identity , and yet when this includes sexuality it is condemned and denied . |
| 16 | Catch-as-catch can , for what is done has gone — and yet when you reenter memory it seems as if time is the dream . |
| 17 | And yet when pressed on any of these issues he says , ‘ I do n't want to say anything . |
| 18 | And yet when folk got it for their arthritis , okay ? |
| 19 | I see now how wrong I was , and yet when I told the king that without resorting to such action I would still be in the granite quarries and so unable to do his bidding , he understood and forgave me . |
| 20 | And yet when it comes to career development , women are invariably judged not so much by their abilities and achievements , but on assumptions about their private lives , responsibilities and future intentions . |
| 21 | But the arrogance of the people and yet when we 're going to work , we 've got to try and combat these people , and what help have you got ? |
| 22 | And yet when she had peered down at Scathach 's body she had looked through leaves , through summer . |
| 23 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 24 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 25 | and yet when it , in er , when say comes round or I 'll go round you do n't look at all that much alike |