Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] yesterday [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ HARLEY HOT IN PURSUIT OF COOL SWEDE ’ read the headline , and the first sentence ran : ‘ Brian Harley , the golfer who was on the scrapheap a year ago , continued his early season bid for glory yesterday with a brave round of sixty-eight to leave him one shot behind the cold-eyed Swedish ace , Bjorn Carlssen . ’ |
| 2 | DAVID PLATT celebrated his Italian league debut for Juventus yesterday with the goal that earned them a 2-2 draw at Genoa . |
| 3 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 4 | Pc Peter Harris went to a house in Springfield Park Road just after midnight yesterday after an emergency call about an alleged assault on a young woman and criminal damage . |
| 5 | SHAREHOLDERS in Pacific Horizon Investment must be congratulating themselves on their decision last August to switch the trust 's investment management from Jupiter Tyndall to Edinburgh 's Baillie Gifford , after news yesterday of a 38.8 per cent leap in net asset value per share at halfway , writes George Duthie . |
| 6 | POLICE union fears over the role of the proposed 30-strong city crime prevention wardens for Glasgow city centre have been allayed after talks yesterday with the Strathclyde Chief Constable , Leslie Sharp . |
| 7 | A DISTRESSED father appealed for help yesterday in finding the ‘ animals ’ who had gunned down his daughter and her husband . |
| 8 | MOTORISTS were made late for work yesterday by a llama which wandered from its farm on to the A22 at Forest Row , Sussex . |
| 9 | While the Constitutional Court was ruling against him in Moscow , the Russian leader received a ringing declaration of support yesterday in Washington . |
| 10 | THE launch of Middlesbrough yesterday as the country 's second environment city did n't exactly get off to a flying start . |
| 11 | GUNMEN escaped with a substantial sum of money yesterday after hijacking a Royal Mail van near Mauchline , Ayrshire . |
| 12 | A BELGRADE-BASED guerrilla group captured a strategic town in the breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina yesterday in another victory for Serbs seeking to partition the newly independent state . |
| 13 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 14 | In one of yesterday 's attack on blacks , a member of the white ultra-rightwing Wit Wolwe ( White Wolves ) shot a five-year-old black girl in the mining town of Nigel yesterday in what a Wit Wolwe spokesman said was a revenge attack for APLA 's killings of whites . |
| 15 | THE newest submarine for the Royal Navy had to make an emergency ascent during trials off the west coast of Scotland yesterday after fears of contamination to her air supplies . |
| 16 | ULSTER COLLEGES FOOTBALL DALTON CUP FOUR-GOAL hero Paul Murphy was the toast of Maghera yesterday after inspiring his side to a Dalton Cup triumph . |
| 17 | LEADING Tory John Gummer quit the Church of England yesterday over its move to bring in women priests . |
| 18 | PAKISTAN signed off their stormy tour of England yesterday with a beating on and off the pitch . |
| 19 | The move also meant that the £10 BILLION spent by the Bank of England yesterday in a bid to prop up the sliding currency was wasted . |
| 20 | ITALIAN Michele Bartoli clinched victory in the six-day Tour of Sicily yesterday by winning the 187.5km final stage in 4hr 33min 47sec . |
| 21 | IAN Maxwell staved off the threat of bankruptcy yesterday by handing over £500,000 to Mirror Group pension funds plundered by his father , the late publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell . |
| 22 | A Romanian traveller arriving in Yugoslavia said he also heard of protests yesterday in the cities of Craiova and Suceava . |
| 23 | Bill Westland , environmental projects manager for Darlington Council , disclosed the ploy to the authority 's working party on the control of dogs yesterday after announcing there were still up to 50 unregistered dangerous dogs , such as pit bull terriers and Japanese Tosas , being kept in the town . |
| 24 | THE explorers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud were tucking into a hearty breakfast of eggs yesterday after being airlifted to safety from the icy wastes of the Antarctic . |
| 25 | Body found : Police were called to the Oxford Road area of Hartlepool yesterday after a man collapsed and died . |
| 26 | A FORKLIFT truck driver vowed never to touch another drop of alcohol yesterday after being caught drink driving . |
| 27 | ALTERNATIVE medicine practitioners were accused by the Royal College of Physicians yesterday of making false and misleading claims for their treatments of allergies by unorthodox methods . |
| 28 | ONCE again Jaguar shares defied the laws of gravity yesterday with a 62p gain to 731p . |
| 29 | A gunman wearing a hunting outfit killed 13 people at the University of Montreal yesterday before committing suicide . |
| 30 | A 77-YEAR-OLD woman was robbed at knifepoint in her home in the Mosspark area of Glasgow yesterday by a masked man . |