Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] yesterday [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID PLATT celebrated his Italian league debut for Juventus yesterday with the goal that earned them a 2-2 draw at Genoa . |
| 2 | It said UN military observers helped after it collapsed in a dispute over control of the local police , prompting new fighting for territory yesterday between the former allies . |
| 3 | ‘ HARLEY HOT IN PURSUIT OF COOL SWEDE ’ read the headline , and the first sentence ran : ‘ Brian Harley , the golfer who was on the scrapheap a year ago , continued his early season bid for glory yesterday with a brave round of sixty-eight to leave him one shot behind the cold-eyed Swedish ace , Bjorn Carlssen . ’ |
| 4 | A JOBLESS plasterer moved into a £100,000 farmhouse on 140 acres of land yesterday after proving he was the love-child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 5 | ALTERNATIVE medicine practitioners were accused by the Royal College of Physicians yesterday of making false and misleading claims for their treatments of allergies by unorthodox methods . |
| 6 | The fired foreign editor of the Daily Mirror , Nick Davies , launched his biography of Maxwell yesterday by fuelling speculation Maxwell had committed suicide . |
| 7 | THE newest submarine for the Royal Navy had to make an emergency ascent during trials off the west coast of Scotland yesterday after fears of contamination to her air supplies . |
| 8 | THE CHIEF executive of National Car Parks was cleared at the Old Bailey in London yesterday of mounting a campaign of industrial espionage against his main rival , Europarks . |
| 9 | HONG KONG — More than 3,000 people marked the 40th anniversary of Communist rule in China yesterday by rallying to protest against the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Peking , AP reports . |
| 10 | A NIGHTCLUB doorman was in a critical condition in hospital yesterday after a Belfast shooting . |
| 11 | Sanctions , including a ban on air traffic and arms sales and the reduction in Libyan diplomatic representation , went into effect at dawn yesterday with the expiry of a grace period for Col Gaddafi to hand over the two suspected bombers of a Pan Am jumbo jet which exploded over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 . |
| 12 | Two Darlington men were jailed for four months by magistrates yesterday for their part in an attempted burglary of a terraced house in the town . |
| 13 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 14 | A gunman wearing a hunting outfit killed 13 people at the University of Montreal yesterday before committing suicide . |
| 15 | ULSTER COLLEGES FOOTBALL DALTON CUP FOUR-GOAL hero Paul Murphy was the toast of Maghera yesterday after inspiring his side to a Dalton Cup triumph . |
| 16 | Chris Bailey , from Norwich , reached the semi-finals of the Masters on the French satellite circuit in Lille yesterday with a 6–1 , 6–2 win over Stephane Sansoni , of France . |
| 17 | CRIPPLED teenager Steven Nash won £674,500 damages and the admiration of a High Court judge in London yesterday for battling against ‘ grievous disabilities ’ and passing eight GCSEs . |
| 18 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 19 | SOUTHEND swimmer Sarah Hardcastle made a successful return to competition yesterday after a six-year absence by winning the 400m freestyle at the Optrex National Winter Championships in Sheffield . |
| 20 | Mr Kinnock exploited political and City tensions over sterling yesterday with a call for the Government to enter immediate negotiations to become a full member of the European Monetary System . |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 yesterday after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter . |
| 22 | CRAIG Chalmers took no part in the Scotland squad session at Murrayfield yesterday in preparation for Saturday 's Royal Bank international against Wales . |
| 23 | Twenty thousand were at Foxhill Park near swindon yesterday for the British 250 cc Moto Cross Grand Prix … |
| 24 | In one of yesterday 's attack on blacks , a member of the white ultra-rightwing Wit Wolwe ( White Wolves ) shot a five-year-old black girl in the mining town of Nigel yesterday in what a Wit Wolwe spokesman said was a revenge attack for APLA 's killings of whites . |
| 25 | SUBSTITUTE Paul Randall earned non-League Bath City a 2-2 draw with Northampton yesterday with a late goal he did not even see . |
| 26 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 27 | The warning came after a meeting in London yesterday of senior conveners . |
| 28 | Arafat adjourned the meeting in Tunis yesterday after two officials of the 18-member ruling body stormed out , PLO officials said . |
| 29 | It met SDLP leader John Hume in Londonderry yesterday before travelling back to Belfast for discussions with Alliance and Sinn Fein . |
| 30 | HUNDREDS of mourners attended the funeral in Tandragee yesterday of brothers Winston and William McConville , who drowned on a fishing trip at the weekend . |