Example sentences of "yet [noun prp] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet Eve had never had anything new , she knew that whatever dress she got for today would be a reject . |
| 2 | Evelyn was very voluble on the rights of women , was , she said , a Committed Feminist , yet Jane had never met anyone so utterly dependent . |
| 3 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 4 | Yet Raine had not stolen their father from their mother — his first wife , Frances , had left years ago . |
| 5 | Yet Pecham had already retreated before Mortmain was promulgated and in that very parliament ; moreover , as we have seen , he was to resume his attack on royal writs after it . |
| 6 | It was Ryan who was trying to get permission — and yet Gwen had just said … and had n't Leo run out of the shop after Ryan ? |
| 7 | Yet Filmer had n't chosen to sit at their table ; it had been the random fortuitous decision of Daffodil . |
| 8 | Yet Connors had n't even hinted at it . |
| 9 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |