Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Muslim militiaman searches the boot of a car in Sidon yesterday after gunmen in the city kidnapped two Swiss Red Cross workers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 4 | MIKE Small was branded ‘ stupid ’ by furious boss Billy Bonds after being sent off for swearing at a linesman at Oakwell yesterday . |
| 5 | Lecturers voiced their overwhelming support for Mrs Falconer and her sister at a meeting at RGU yesterday . |
| 6 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League Second Division were unanimously thrown out by England 's top clubs at a meeting in London yesterday . |
| 7 | The warning came after a meeting in London yesterday of senior conveners . |
| 8 | I was at a meeting in London yesterday where I handed over my report . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But an explanation by Loganair to passengers waiting for a flight in Stornoway yesterday set new standards for bizarre apologies . |
| 18 | JONJO O'Neill 's stable star Danny Connors had to be put down after breaking a leg at Kelso yesterday . |
| 19 | A spokesman for BT yesterday refused to comment on whether the company had received instructions to cut lines . |
| 20 | I had a word with Tom yesterday , it was me who brought this up . |
| 21 | Having got so far it seemed appropriate to have a word with Tom yesterday , if not a glass of champagne . |
| 22 | ‘ Dora , did n't you say something to me about trying to have a word with Dieter yesterday morning , before you went off to your interview ? ’ |
| 23 | WORLD champion Stephen Hendry was in a hurry in Blackpool yesterday as he took only 58 minutes to reach the fourth round of the £140,000 Regal Welsh Open . |
| 24 | FORMER Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley warned the party not to do a U-turn on Europe yesterday . |
| 25 | But when Meryl Streep tumbled off a plane at Heathrow yesterday , the screen goddess looked every inch a mortal . |
| 26 | You called a number in Caracas yesterday morning , asking for someone called Laurie . |
| 27 | Daru booked his place for the Cesarewitch at Newmarket on October 17 when completing a hat-trick at York yesterday . |
| 28 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 29 | I had a letter from LAPTC yesterday about the threatened closure of Garstang Magistrates ' Court . |
| 30 | Irish raider General Idea warmed up for the Mackeson with a win at Punchestown yesterday . |