Example sentences of "yet she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was such a short word , and yet she managed to put an amazing amount of meaning into it . |
| 2 | Yet she managed to be a rather successful financial journalist . |
| 3 | Yet she remains for the modern reader perhaps the most intriguing member of the entire family . |
| 4 | His voice was flat , unemotional , yet she heard the wealth of anguish behind the stark words . |
| 5 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 6 | Yet she sensed that was only a beginning . |
| 7 | Yet she sensed that now was not the time to press for a formal interview . |
| 8 | She flees for her life , yet she goes to almost certain death . |
| 9 | Yet she dreaded the next few hours . |
| 10 | Yet she kept running to the entrance herself . |
| 11 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 12 | It might be needless caution , yet she kept silence by instinct in all public places upon all that touched Hotspur 's affairs , and more because they were his than because they affected the state , and such gravities as peace and war . |
| 13 | Yet she meant well and one night went out in a fog to look for me . |
| 14 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 15 | It is quite breathtaking , for instance , that her sympathies are so strong for another girl whom she sees as literally killing herself with exercise , yet she does n't really extend her sympathies or concern towards herself . |
| 16 | And she said it was so funny , she said , you 'd get the , the so the poorer people perhaps would use this shop and erm and yet she said , people I knew in the street erm that were Conservatives dealt at the Co-op , where it was I suppose the best buy and they were saving the divi you know , and we thought it was quite funny really . |
| 17 | Erm bearing in mind that when she actually came and spoke about her part-time job her income was thirty five pound a week and yet she said she was a tax payer well take home pay was thirty five pound a week and talking about being a tax payer . |
| 18 | Your Mum is is really being foolish though with that dog she 's got problems already he 's wanting a chew and she 's give him one she not give him one to him , I have n't tried him with one yet she said she actually |
| 19 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 20 | It was a cold goodnight , and yet she had never felt so warm towards him . |
| 21 | Yet she had no doubt she was lucky ; he still moved her with his intelligence , his charm , his sensitivity . |
| 22 | Yet she had a son stationed in the Isle of ‘ White ’ ( as she pronounced it , and wrote on her letters to him ) , and another in the Home Guard ; and our unwelcome presence was evidence enough that there was a war on . |
| 23 | Yet she had n't the heart to forbid him to smoke when he had so few comforts left . |
| 24 | Older than I by about six years , with no outstanding attributes — yet she had that indefinable quality , that certain allure ( for me , at any rate ) . |
| 25 | Shine On took no hold at all , yet she had difficulty in pulling him up . |
| 26 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 27 | Yet she had abandoned Philippe — not just physically , within months of meeting D'Arcy . |
| 28 | Yet she had to admit he had changed over the last few days . |
| 29 | Already the whole class had begun to warm towards Miss Honey , although as yet she had hardly taken any notice of any of them except Matilda . |
| 30 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |