Example sentences of "yet [pron] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet I like comfortable dresses , too : why not ?
2 ( 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 .
3 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 .
4 Yet I suspect most tensions are endemic and inescapable .
5 ‘ Has Doone found out yet who put that arrow through you ? ’ he asked .
6 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 .
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 Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being .
13 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 .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 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 .
16 Yet they put this knowledge to good advantage , both officially and in more mundane matters .
17 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 .
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