Example sentences of "yet [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I knew big Sunday dinners and family get-togethers were behind the closed doors . |
| 2 | Yet I like comfortable dresses , too : why not ? |
| 3 | Yet I craved physical affection — the raw stuff of touch — Perhaps even more than emotional . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet I suspect most tensions are endemic and inescapable . |
| 7 | and yet you know that night Chris , and on that bloody Wednesday night knew what was going on , every bugger knew but Margaret . |
| 8 | Some of them and yet you get huge damage . |
| 9 | and yet you see these days they would give her treatment for that |
| 10 | ‘ The poll tax is almost finished and yet you have Labour councillors still hounding working class people . |
| 11 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 12 | Their place in a group dominated by the Catholics no doubt reflected the regent 's desire for consent from Catholic and protestant alike ; and as yet she saw little reason to fear the Protestants , who must still have seemed to her far less of a threat than the strong Huguenot party in France . |
| 13 | Leapor 's appeal to the imagery of retirement is somewhat conventional , yet she uses that ideal of landscape not as a pretext for improvement but as a defence of existing topography . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being . |
| 16 | Yet we suffer ever-growing road congestion , the amelioration of which most thinking people now agree can not be achieved merely by building more roads . |
| 17 | His bad English and my bad French , yet we understood each other . |
| 18 | ‘ Setting aside the issue of murder , ’ said Herluin , ‘ for which as yet we lack any kind of proof , surely his story is to be believed . |
| 19 | For example , there is no conclusive evidence from anywhere that DDT has ever killed anybody , yet we have ample evidence that it has saved millions of lives . |
| 20 | Yet they put this knowledge to good advantage , both officially and in more mundane matters . |
| 21 | In fact , most industrial countries passed this figure over twenty-five years ago , with tax ratios of over 40% for some countries in the 1970s , yet they experienced low inflation and rapid growth of real incomes . |
| 22 | Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard . |
| 23 | Yet they included gifted men , not only the Florentine pioneers of opera who for a time were still active as monodists — Peri 's Le varie musiche ( Florence , 1609 ) , Caccini 's posthumously published Nuove Musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle ( Florence , 1614 ) , Gagliano 's Musiche ( Venice , 1615 ) but younger composers : Sigismondo d'India ( c. 1580–1629 ) , Claudio Saracini ( 1586–after 1649 ) , and Domenico Belli ( fl. c. 1616 ) in the Florentine-Mantuan orbit . |
| 24 | And yet they remained close friends . |
| 25 | And yet , despite this , there was too much to separate the men ; they exasperated each other and yet they needed each other . |
| 26 | Yet they drew huge crowds and all their meetings seemed a success . |
| 27 | Yet they supplied real needs : . |
| 28 | Operators in other countries may maintain that they have ‘ commercial ’ digital services , but as yet they have few customers and they are finding it hard to rival the falling prices of analogue cellular networks . |
| 29 | ‘ Over-involved ’ is a derogatory label still used by professionals to describe anxious , supportive relatives , yet it takes extraordinary judgment and sensitivity to manage a close relative 's abnormal beliefs and behaviour in a way which neither colludes with pathological beliefs nor alienates the sufferer . |
| 30 | 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 . |