Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] yesterday [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Armed insurgents were reported yesterday to be setting up camps in the hilly terrain of Nagorny Karabakh as tensions between the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan threatened to erupt into full-scale confrontation . |
| 2 | THREE 14-year-old Scouts were found yesterday after being trapped for 18 hours in torrential rain on a Lake District mountain . |
| 3 | FLAMBOYANT Tory MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn was recovering yesterday after being shot in the eye as neighbours potted clay pigeons . |
| 4 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 5 | Petr Uhl , a dissident in prison facing charges of spreading false information , was said yesterday to be a victim of disinformation . |
| 6 | The net worth of ESII was said yesterday to be about £17 million of which £11 million of capital would be repaid . |
| 7 | The man charged with throwing an egg at Mr Major at Eastleigh , Hants , on Monday was revealed yesterday to be a Labour Party member . |
| 8 | THE MAN charged with throwing an egg at Mr Major in Eastleigh , Hants , on Monday was revealed yesterday to be a Labour Party member . |
| 9 | Robert Maxwell , the Daily Mirror publisher who once offered to buy Edwards 's shares , was rumoured yesterday to be still interested , but his family 's interest in other football League clubs — Derby and Oxford — would face problems from the Football League 's limitations on club ownership . |