Example sentences of "[coord] yet [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And yet they remained close friends .
2 And yet , despite this , there was too much to separate the men ; they exasperated each other and yet they needed each other .
3 But all the messages that the parliaments of women busily exchanged among themselves stuck at one figure whom their spate of stories , their laughter and malice , could n't break down or wash away , a special kind of other woman , a figure so pitiful and so ludicrous that even jokes could n't make her situation spicy , and yet she outnumbered all others , because so many men had gone away alone , to America , both North and South .
4 And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds .
5 It was a formula , one which Alexei had heard his father use many times before , and yet he saw both women smile .
6 And yet he had that smoothness of satiety about him , in his voice , in his smile , even in the touch of his hands .
7 ‘ On Sunday , when the squad assembled , I was told by our medical staff that Ally McCoist was as good as out because of his thigh injury and yet he scored two goals .
8 It is surprising to find some women who are heavily infected with candida and yet who deny any symptoms save an increase in vaginal discharge .
9 ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table .
10 I think it has no little merit ; but as a copy to be prefixed to the sweetly easy poems of Molly Leaper [ sic ] , had it not been written , I should not have advised the measure ; and yet I love that genius should shew its powers .
11 These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference .
12 The relation seen as Figure 3.30 is in BCNF ( and therefore TNF ) and yet it contains considerable redundancy .
13 Some of them and yet you get huge damage .
14 and yet you know that night Chris , and on that bloody Wednesday night knew what was going on , every bugger knew but Margaret .
15 ‘ The poll tax is almost finished and yet you have Labour councillors still hounding working class people .
16 and yet you see these days they would give her treatment for that
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