Example sentences of "yet [pron] [vb past] [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 craved physical affection — the raw stuff of touch — Perhaps even more than emotional . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His bad English and my bad French , yet we understood each other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And yet they remained close friends . |
| 11 | And yet , despite this , there was too much to separate the men ; they exasperated each other and yet they needed each other . |
| 12 | Yet they drew huge crowds and all their meetings seemed a success . |
| 13 | Yet they supplied real needs : . |
| 14 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 15 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 16 | The outbreak of war with Spain soon removed even the façade of trade as its main purpose , yet it had royal support and between two and three thousand shareholders . |
| 17 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 18 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 19 | Yet he collected two phials of prussic acid from Bishopsgate and proceeded to Sara 's cottage at Salt Hill , arriving slightly after 4pm on 1 January . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | It was a formula , one which Alexei had heard his father use many times before , and yet he saw both women smile . |
| 22 | And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds . |
| 23 | Bill Koch became acutely embarrassed that money was being donated to this party in his name , yet he had little cash of his own . |
| 24 | And yet he had that smoothness of satiety about him , in his voice , in his smile , even in the touch of his hands . |
| 25 | Even the ex-scumnik , Tundrish , spoke with reasonable fluency , though in his case concepts sometimes seemed to be lacking to accompany the words which burbled from his mouth , as if as yet he possessed more words than meanings . |