Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun] yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Must have sunk a bit of booze yesterday . ’ |
| 2 | were handed a vote of confidence yesterday ( weds ) for the blueprint for the game 's future at a council meeting of all member clubs . |
| 3 | A straw-poll of representatives yesterday showed support for the Chancellor is remarkably resilient . |
| 4 | A Muslim militiaman searches the boot of a car in Sidon yesterday after gunmen in the city kidnapped two Swiss Red Cross workers . |
| 5 | The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets . |
| 6 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 7 | MIDLAND Bank chief executive Brian Pearse noted a glimmer of recovery yesterday when he unveiled a rise in pre-tax profits to £178 million . |
| 8 | Murrayfield was a hive of activity yesterday as there were also sessions for the under-21s , under-19s and under-18s . |
| 9 | MIKE Small was branded ‘ stupid ’ by furious boss Billy Bonds after being sent off for swearing at a linesman at Oakwell yesterday . |
| 10 | A group of charities yesterday launched the Winter Warmth Line telephone advice service for pensioners . |
| 11 | as if in answer to their prayers , the people of Zafferana Etnea were accorded a moment of respite yesterday . |
| 12 | Lecturers voiced their overwhelming support for Mrs Falconer and her sister at a meeting at RGU yesterday . |
| 13 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League Second Division were unanimously thrown out by England 's top clubs at a meeting in London yesterday . |
| 14 | The warning came after a meeting in London yesterday of senior conveners . |
| 15 | I was at a meeting in London yesterday where I handed over my report . ’ |
| 16 | After a meeting in London yesterday to discuss a replacement for the Taurus paperless trading system — which collapsed last week after incurring development costs of more than £400 million — Terry Pearson , the Royal Bank 's senior securities adviser , said : ‘ We had total agreement on some key issues . |
| 17 | They agreed at a meeting in Edinburgh yesterday to urge the Government to seek changes in legislation so that tenants who have bought their homes with the benefit of a discount are debarred from buying council houses with similar concessions on a second or more occasions . |
| 18 | AT A MEETING in Pretoria yesterday which FW de Klerk said he hoped would prove a milestone in South African history , the President talked for three hours with the country 's three most politically prominent church leaders , Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Dr Allan Boesak and Rev Frank Chikane . |
| 19 | ELANA MEYER won the battle between South Africa 's two top middle distance runners when she comfortably beat Zola Pieterse over 3,000 metres at a meeting in Stellenbosch yesterday . |
| 20 | The potential for violence during Mr Mandela 's visit was illustrated when he cancelled a visit to a township outside Ladysmith yesterday after an ANC supporter in the township had been shot dead and another seriously wounded by unknown gunmen . |
| 21 | A TEAM of archaeologists yesterday staged a dig in the centre of Darlington in search of fourteenth century remains . |
| 22 | Campese — having a ball at training yesterday with an inflatable — said : ‘ Will 's a very good player . |
| 23 | It followed a day of incidents yesterday when people in the Breton ports of Concarneau and Roscoff staged protest marches , attacked warehouses and forced a British cargo ferry carrying lorries loaded with fish to switch ports . |
| 24 | Excited physicists packed a seminar at CERN yesterday to hear that tests in the recently-opened LEP ( Large Electron-Positron collider ) had showed all matter is made from exactly three families of sub-atomic particles . |
| 25 | Caroline Tarn , 26 , of Middleton-in-Teesdale , was last night comfortable in Darlington Memorial Hospital after her car was in collision with a van during a snowstorm in Teesdale yesterday . |
| 26 | Oil prices lost 45c to close at $17.70 a barrel in London yesterday after doubts about the effectiveness of the quotas agreed on Tuesday by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries . |
| 27 | FAMILIES were evacuated after a gas blast ripped through a block of flats yesterday . |
| 28 | THREE elderly people were taken to hospital following a fire in a block of flats yesterday afternoon . |
| 29 | But an explanation by Loganair to passengers waiting for a flight in Stornoway yesterday set new standards for bizarre apologies . |
| 30 | Despite her declaration of a state of emergency yesterday and the government 's announcement early today that the rebels had agreed to return to their barracks , the events of the last six days can only be seen as a colossal confession of weakness on Mrs Aquino 's part . |