Example sentences of "[verb] by [noun] yesterday [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOUT 30 people may have been massacred in Kinshasa , Zaire , on Monday , after a bar-room brawl over a woman led vengeance-seeking Zairian troops to fire indiscriminately on two funeral processions , killing the wrong targets , human rights and business sources reported by telephone yesterday from Abidjan , on the Ivory Coast . |
| 2 | An elderly woman was rescued by firemen yesterday after locking herself in her home in Topping Close on Hartlepool 's Headland . |
| 3 | The victim of Monday night 's shooting in Derriaghy , Co Antrim , was named by police yesterday as Mr Robert Colin Burns , who converted to Roman Catholicism after marrying . |
| 4 | Joseph Hornigold , two , was freed by firemen yesterday after trapping his finger in a spring-loaded hinge at his grandmother 's home in Homerton Road , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | AN ALSATIAN which ate three sheep was being hunted by police yesterday amid fears that it could attack a child . |
| 6 | JOHN WOODCOCK , a Daily Mail reporter , was praised by police yesterday for tackling a shotgun raider single-handed . |
| 7 | US PRESIDENT-elect Bill Clinton spoke by telephone yesterday with several world leaders , among them Russia 's Boris Yeltsin . |
| 8 | FIVE people were being questioned by police yesterday in connection with the murder of trainee accountant Martin Jacks . |
| 9 | BOYS and girls of the Royal Hospital School at Holbrook were joined by villagers yesterday at an ecumenical service in the school chapel to celebrate the jubilee of the school 's move to Suffolk from Greenwich . |
| 10 | THE BBC 's most radical reappraisal of its future , with options of introducing advertising , cutting 10,000 jobs and creating a new Asian radio network , was described by unions yesterday as ‘ a bombshell document ’ . |