Example sentences of "yet [pron] [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 | ‘ Has Doone found out yet who put that arrow through you ? ’ he asked . |
| 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 you know that night Chris , and on that bloody Wednesday night knew what was going on , every bugger knew but Margaret . |
| 10 | Some of them and yet you get huge damage . |
| 11 | and yet you see these days they would give her treatment for that |
| 12 | ‘ The poll tax is almost finished and yet you have Labour councillors still hounding working class people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His bad English and my bad French , yet we understood each other . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yet there seemed such knowledge in those grey eyes , so much awareness , and she shivered again as she recalled the whipcord strength in that seemingly indolent frame . |
| 23 | An improvement in technology leading to increased efficiency in food production would have helped , but as yet there seems little evidence for this , unless intensification of field systems to open common fields is a manifestation of this . |
| 24 | Yet they put this knowledge to good advantage , both officially and in more mundane matters . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And yet they remained close friends . |
| 29 | And yet , despite this , there was too much to separate the men ; they exasperated each other and yet they needed each other . |
| 30 | Yet they drew huge crowds and all their meetings seemed a success . |