Example sentences of "[adj] and yet [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then again , you say all this and yet you say you 're too tired to swim ? " |
| 2 | So er you know they 're making their bed er nice and feathery and yet they denying it us and then that 's where the erm the sore point comes in . |
| 3 | Er with one T V commercial and yet you 've said that your initial thrust will be erm in three areas . |
| 4 | You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on . |
| 5 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |
| 6 | I even said to myself , ‘ He 's English and yet he understands . ’ ’ |
| 7 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 8 | And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way . |
| 9 | Ian , a cracking debut ; first of all take us through that er first half save , you had nothing to do , conditions awful and yet you pull off a save like that . |
| 10 | ‘ We were so debauched and yet we thought we were hilarious . |
| 11 | He 's still alive and yet I keep thinking of him in the past tense . |
| 12 | Well actually I live just outside Shilton. erm they keep saying that it 's Shilton airfield , actually it 's not on the airfield at all — as you will know , Mr. Hayworth 's got planning permission for a golf course on the airfield — it 's Scrubs Lane , Shilton , and actually they 've already the Council have already turned down two applications for caravan sites there anyway erm because it 's unsuitable and yet they think that they you know that it 's going to be suitable for gipsies to live down there . |
| 13 | In 93 , by contrast , the sense of isolation and suspicion of infidelity ( 92 ends with the line ‘ Thou mayst be false and yet I know it not ’ ) takes on that most bitter form , knowing self-deception : ‘ So shall I live supposing thou art true , /Like a deceivéd husband ’ — that is , a cuckold . |
| 14 | But he 's just 18 and yet he came on and took control , linking with the front players and proved to be the right substitution ’ |
| 15 | Erm the Aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again that 's the putting down on paper I did n't believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what you 're doing wrong the rest of it . |
| 16 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 17 | So , tensions occur in relationships where the sportsmen are thought by their coach to be naturally gifted and yet they fail to achieve success . |
| 18 | It should have been irresistible and yet we hesitated , embarrassed at having taken so long . |
| 19 | So we need to build our systems to meet the requirements we have today because we could n't justify more and yet we have to build in the scale scaleability so that systems can grow to meet the growing requirements which are almost inevitable . |
| 20 | The lava was therefore available and yet it did not fill , for example , Mare Imbrium until 500 Ma later . |
| 21 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 22 | His debts to her were never-ending and yet she had never once made him feel that he owed her anything . |