Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] [noun] yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 2 | Hitachi Data Systems Inc duly announced its new 7600 Disk Storage Subsystem yesterday — with precious little detail . |
| 3 | LORD ALDINGTON , a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and Warden of Winchester School , was falsely branded a war criminal on the scale of the worst butchers of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia , his counsel , Charles Gray QC , told a High Court libel jury yesterday . |
| 4 | LORD ALDINGTON told a High Court libel jury yesterday that he and other British Army personnel ‘ hardened our hearts ’ when obeying orders to repatriate about 40,000 Cossacks at the end of the Second World War . |
| 5 | The Scottish League management committee yesterday came out officially against the idea of a winter shut-down , but promised to canvass all 38 member clubs for their views . |
| 6 | The Scottish League Management Committee yesterday claimed the vast majority of clubs were in favour of expanding the number of senior clubs to a total of 40 , however . |
| 7 | JOHN Whitaker blew his bid to win Britain 's first individual showjumping gold medal yesterday . |
| 8 | STUDENT Robin Hilton was sentenced to three months youth detention yesterday for acting as ‘ a drug runner ’ . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , West Ham 's first team squad were shown a video of random doping test procedures yesterday . |
| 10 | AN IMPASSIONED appeal for Labour to back electoral reform was made by a leading Shadow Cabinet member yesterday after the national executive decided overwhelmingly to oppose a proportional representation motion . |
| 11 | COMEDIENNE Victoria Wood looks the typical young mother as she takes daughter Grace on a last-minute Christmas shopping trip yesterday . |
| 12 | INTREPID David Bradshaw broke the Great Bognor Birdman record yesterday — but winning the wacky contest cost him dearly . |
| 13 | Far Eastern trader Inchcape Plc yesterday announced that it had taken a 15.3% stake in Gestetner Holdings Plc , the world 's largest independent photocopier dealer , with the support of 29.5% shareholder Ricoh Co Ltd . |
| 14 | A MAJOR meat industry figure yesterday endorsed livestock producers ' legitimate expectations of premium prices for quality products . |
| 15 | MARTIN O'NEILL landed the chance to plot a major FA Cup triumph yesterday , when Vauxhall Conference leaders Wycombe Wanderers landed a second round tie at home to West Bromwich Albion . |
| 16 | COMMONWEALTH Games bronze medallist Colin Walker clipped nearly ten seconds off the North-East Championships 3,000 metres steeplechase record yesterday and the described his performance as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 17 | BILL CLINTON clinched the backing of America 's largest trade union group yesterday and won an easy victory in caucuses in Virginia . |
| 18 | THE property downturn claimed two more building society casualties yesterday , the Halifax announcing a £14.5m loss from its estate agency chain and the Leeds Permanent closing down 60 branches and sacking 243 people . |
| 19 | CAMBRIDGE swept to decisive victory in the 139th University Boat Race yesterday — condemning Oxford 's rich array of Olympians and internationals to unexpected and crushing defeat . |
| 20 | Well-heeled sale THOUSANDS of people attended Britain 's poshest car boot sale yesterday at Nostell Priory , near Wakefield , West Yorkshire vying with each other for cast-offs from the landed gentry . |
| 21 | THOUSANDS of people attended Britain 's poshest car boot sale yesterday at Nostell Priory , near Wakefield , West Yorkshire vying with each other for cast-offs from the landed gentry . |
| 22 | TV chiefs are no nearer reaching a decision on the future of ITN 's News At Ten , despite a meeting of all 15 independent television station heads yesterday . |
| 23 | TV chiefs are no nearer reaching a decision on the future of ITN 's News At Ten , despite a meeting of all 15 independent television station heads yesterday . |
| 24 | One Sunday league official yesterday forecast that more than half of the 130 teams , where boys of between nine and 15 play every Sunday , could go out of existence . |
| 25 | ‘ Britain 's first woman spy chief yesterday launched a James Bond-style war against the IRA . |
| 26 | GRAEME SOUNESS , the Liverpool manager , is back in intensive care after suffering a setback in his recovery from triple bypass heart surgery yesterday . |
| 27 | THE United States fired the first shot in a possible world trade war yesterday . |
| 28 | NORMAN Stoller , chairman of fast-growing Seton Healthcare Group yesterday held out the prospect of more jobs at the company 's Merseyside plant after announcing a 41pc leap in pre-tax profits . |
| 29 | KIRSTY SPEAK and Sarah Burnell shared the lead with French challenger Delphine Bourson after the first of the two qualifying rounds for the Centenary women 's British Open golf amateur championship yesterday . |
| 30 | But the referendum plan could be swallowed up in a swamp of indifference — a Russian television opinion poll yesterday showed only 34 per cent of those questioned would take part . |