Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT Books Etc in Victoria Street , opposite Victoria Station yesterday , I spotted Chris Patten , the Conservative chairman who , in the wake of losing his seat in the General Election , has now been offered the governorship of Hong Kong . |
| 2 | HEAVY fighting broke out in at least three districts of Panama City yesterday , as General Noriega and his supporters continued to defy the bogged-down 24,000 US invasion force with bitter resistance . |
| 3 | AN 80-year-old woman who was battered by robbers in her home was making steady recovery at a Countess of Chester Hospital yesterday . |
| 4 | THE financial holding company controlled by the Agnellis of Fiat fame yesterday denied press accounts which reported that the family had acquired 3 p.c. of HJ Heinz . |
| 5 | TIMING was not on the side of Thames Television yesterday as it unveiled the £57million purchase of American TV production house Reeves . |
| 6 | TWO North-East councils say there could be job losses following the Government 's announcement of charge capping yesterday . |
| 7 | A man was taken to hospital suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation yesterday after a kitchen blaze at his ground-floor flat in Lutterworth Road , Longbenton , Newcastle . |
| 8 | YOUNGSTERS from a Middlesbrough nursery class got the feel of country life yesterday by feeding six-week-old lambs being ‘ fostered ’ at the town 's leisure farm in Coulby Newham . |
| 9 | PAUL Verrill , a graduate engineer at Tioxide , Hartlepool , explains the working of a valve to Carmel School student Dorothy Prior and fellow pupils who visited a Darlington College of Technology exhibition yesterday . |
| 10 | THE Princess of Wales spoke of her first-hand experience of family break-up yesterday . |
| 11 | Alongside his impressive profits , the supermarket retailer issued a five-point manifesto for business confidence yesterday . |
| 12 | A THIEF at a fast food bar near Windsor Castle yesterday snatched an American tourist 's handbag — containing 10,000 dollars , jewellery worth £23,000 and a mini-TV . |
| 13 | A FIREBOMB was defused by Army bomb disposal officers near Windsor Castle yesterday at the publishers of blood sports magazines . |
| 14 | THE staff of the School of Food and Consumer Studies at Aberdeen 's Robert Gordon University were balloted for strike action yesterday in the growing dispute over the sacking of a senior lecturer . |
| 15 | A NEW service which is expected to encourage more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 16 | A NEW service which is A expected to encourage A more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 17 | AN 11-MONTH-OLD black girl was in a coma with brain damage yesterday after she was allegedly hit by a stone flung by a white youth from the back of a moving pick-up . |
| 18 | She fell right into the trap , as she said : ‘ Yeah , she got a daughter in Vancouver General yesterday . |
| 19 | He drove me here from Detroit airport yesterday . |
| 20 | Doctors fought for more than six hours to save the life of Noel O'Kane ( 20 ) , a single man from Keady Road , Swatragh , but he died in Coleraine Hospital yesterday afternoon . |
| 21 | JOHNSON MATTHEY , the precious metals to chemicals group , was given a respite from takeover speculation yesterday after its biggest shareholder , Charter Consolidated , said it had no plans to change its 38 per cent stake . |
| 22 | JOHNSON MATTHEY , the precious metals to chemicals group , was given a respite from takeover speculation yesterday after its biggest shareholder , Charter Consolidated , said it had no plans to change its 38 per cent stake . |
| 23 | TO trumpeted fanfares , standing ovations and cheers from the people , and a 20-gun salute , Vaclav Havel , playwright extraordinary and leader of the year 's most peaceful revolution against Stalinism , was acclaimed in Prague Castle yesterday as Czechoslovakia 's new President . |
| 24 | A CHOIR from Cambridge University yesterday busked in Durham city . |
| 25 | A driver finds his way blocked by protesting families in Marl Drive yesterday |
| 26 | A WIDOW raped on Christmas Day as she returned home from midnight mass yesterday appealed for help in finding her attacker . |
| 27 | Your father and Jonathan killed in motor accident yesterday stop Funeral tomorrow stop Desperate to see you stop Arriving Fiesole Maundy Thursday stop Mama . |
| 28 | THE brother-in-law of James Guerin , the US industrialist accused of defrauding Ferranti of more than £150m , pleaded guilty in US court yesterday to two counts of bribery in America 's WedTech defence scandal . |
| 29 | An announcement timed to be released simultaneously in Britain and America confirmed my world exclusive in Mirror Sport yesterday that Mansell had done the deal . |
| 30 | The League management committee also debated possible changes in league structure yesterday . |