Example sentences of "yet he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept trying to tell herself that he could no longer surprise her , and yet he continued to do just that . |
| 2 | Hitler also had the brains of a gnat , yet he managed to bring the great and wise German nation to the point of madness . |
| 3 | Yet he refuses to sentimentalize the connection , recognizing that white homosexuals are not necessarily less racist than white heterosexuals , and that the cross-racial attraction in question may , tor both parties , be a consequence , rather than a repudiation , of their oppression . |
| 4 | Paddy Byrne meant nothing to him , yet he 'd appeared at the graveside this morning . |
| 5 | Nothing looked familiar , and yet he 'd gone around the block again and again in anticipation of something like this . |
| 6 | Good lord , she 'd all but begged him to take her , yet he 'd walked away . |
| 7 | And yet he 'd talked about giving it back if he won and if she was good to him . |
| 8 | And yet he 'd disappeared , without trace . |
| 9 | ‘ Yet he does show great uncertainty in the face of her determination . |
| 10 | Yet he proceeded to declare that by refraining from exercising in America the power of the executive which it controlled in Great Britain , Parliament would preserve the unity of the Empire : |
| 11 | He had been accused early on in the play by Agydeus that he was too barbaric to offer Zenocrate any amorous discourse , yet he manages to produce a lovely speech for her where he talks about he stunning beauty and his love for her : ‘ Zenocrate , the loveliest maid alive … whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven … that with thy looks canst clear the darkened sky ’ . |
| 12 | He thinks that I am the man who killed the others on the wasteland , yet he keeps coming . |
| 13 | He was the leader of by far the largest party , yet he felt committed by the Buckingham Palace arrangement to another Prime Minister . |
| 14 | It was strange that he was prepared to pay out £150million ‘ and yet he continues to deny the Government 's responsibility for mistakes and does not even apologise for his department 's role ’ . |
| 15 | Yet he continues to care for them , and clothes them before they go . |
| 16 | After all this time of wondering , when her instincts told her that he was in love with her yet he seemed to draw down a shutter between them so often , it seemed almost too good to be true . |
| 17 | You know , it could n't be you know w we we could n't produce what he wanted , and certainly the material was n't there for the things he wanted to do , and yet he seemed to assume that he knew everything and would n't take any advice from the experienced men in the quarry . |
| 18 | It was crazy , she scarcely knew this man , yet he seemed to have the power to throw all her normally perfectly well-adjusted emotions into turmoil . |
| 19 | Yet he chose to keep it secret and blamed officers of the prison service for what happened . |
| 20 | Pascal , for instance , held that it is ‘ at least probable that no god exists ’ , and yet he chose to believe ( in his terms of belief as a wager ) . |
| 21 | Yet he had asked her a question , a pointed question . |
| 22 | Yet he had remained alert the whole time , his senses tuned , even in their intimacy ; he had been able to bring his mind to other things . |
| 23 | Yet he had argued with Miguel . |
| 24 | Yet he had made no secret of his opinion that women and boats were about as compatible as oil and water . |
| 25 | Yet he had gone ahead . |
| 26 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 27 | Yet he had to spend hours of his time learning Greek iambic verse as a punishment for being rude to a master in a political debate . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was because the Americans had not been at the Moscow Olympics that he was n't sure of himself ; yet he had beaten them later . |
| 29 | It was so clear in his mind , he could hear his nan 's voice , even smell that strangely comforting smell of scorched linen as she pressed down on the iron , and yet he had understood little of their conversation at the time , had n't understood , in fact , until years later . |
| 30 | It was ultimately Craig 's responsibility and yet he had stood back and allowed himself to be duped and Emily 's father to be ruined . |