Example sentences of "yesterday as [pers pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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1 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
2 | THE little daughters of murdered lecturer Elizabeth Howe wept yesterday as they said a last goodbye to their mother . |
3 | However , legal action was far from 26-year-old Shaunagh 's mind yesterday as she sipped a lager and kept the Maltsters Arms running smoothly . |
4 | POTHOLER Ellis Barker , 36 , from Manchester plunged 60ft to his death yesterday as he explored a cave near Santander , Spain . |
5 | JOHN MAJOR was dubbed ‘ the Eddie Eagle of politics ’ yesterday as he took a massive fall in the Commons . |
6 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
7 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury at the Old Bailey , in London , of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
8 | Richard Branson was characteristically cock-a-hoop yesterday as he announced a partnership with Japan 's largest record company . |
9 | A CALLER wished Frank Bough well on the air yesterday as he hosted a radio phone-in just two weeks after revelations that he had visited a ‘ Miss Whiplash ’ vice den . |
10 | AN explosion ripped through a man 's living room yesterday as he watched a TV film in which Michael Caine blew up a safe . |
11 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke announced the Gallup findings yesterday as he unveiled a five-point plan designed to lead to better policing . |
12 | SHATTERED Frank had family Sunday lunch yesterday as he put a brave face on more embarrassing stories |