Example sentences of "yesterday [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sir Peter Holmes , chairman of the UK-based Shell Transport & Trading wing , urged caution yesterday about reading too much into results influenced by changes in accountancy practices to meet new US rules , and currency movements . |
| 2 | He said summat yesterday about taking an hour off . |
| 3 | COUNCIL tenants in East Lothian were warned yesterday about terrifying their neighbours with anti-social behaviour . |
| 4 | Did you get this , by , by the way did you get the information yesterday about collecting the bar codes ? |
| 5 | Will he please assure me that the story in The Sunday Telegraph yesterday about considering yet another line is untrue ? |
| 6 | A MALAYSIAN was jailed for five years in the capital , Kuala Lumpur , yesterday for biting off the finger of a policeman who had prevented him stealing a motorcycle . |
| 7 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |
| 8 | AIDS victim Alberto Gonzalez , 28 , got five years jail yesterday for trying to murder a girl of 17 by unsafe sex . |
| 9 | A COUSIN of Prince Charles was pulled over by police yesterday for trying to dodge a queue of traffic on a motorway slip road . |
| 10 | Ryan Monks and Paul Mill , both 21 , were jailed for life at Perth High Court yesterday for hacking gunshop manager Mr Gordon Johnston , aged 54 , to death during a raid at his shop in Dundee . |
| 11 | HOMELESS charity Shelter apologised yesterday for sending out mock repossession notices to 32,000 families . |
| 12 | A DRINK-DRIVER was jailed for just four months yesterday for mowing down a nine-year-old girl . |
| 13 | ALEX HIGGINS escaped suspension but was fined £3,000 yesterday for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 14 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 15 | THE convicted Watergate figure Charles Colson , once known as ‘ the toughest of the tough ’ in the Nixon White House , won a million-dollar prize yesterday for bringing religion and hope to prisons . |
| 16 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 17 | However , the TCCB itself came under fire yesterday for allowing a similar attack by former England captain David Gower on India 's bowlers to be published in a new book — Gower : The Autobiography . |
| 18 | HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke was criticised by police officers yesterday for shelving plans to arm them with a truncheon they say could have protected injured policewoman Leslie Harrison from attack . |
| 19 | DRUGS baron Rene Black was jailed for 15 years yesterday for organising a £15.5 million conspiracy to flood Britain with drugs from Europe 's first cocaine factory . |
| 20 | No wonder the manager got het up with one of the tabloids yesterday for printing a picture of Bryan Robson yawning behind his back in training . |
| 21 | A BUSINESSMAN was jailed for 18 months yesterday for receiving thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods . |
| 22 | DUTCH transport minister Johanna Maij-Weggen apologised to colleagues yesterday for breaking her own speed limit . |
| 23 | A FARMING company was fined £500 at Perth Sheriff Court yesterday for breaking health and safety at work regulations . |
| 24 | A CAREER diplomat was jailed for nine months yesterday for using United Kingdom High Commission bank accounts to profit from a currency black market . |
| 25 | A McDONALD 'S manageress was led weeping to jail yesterday for using a bomb hoax to empty a rival restaurant . |
| 26 | Sarah Bell , of Gordon Crescent , Richmond , and Malcolm Green , of Finghall , near Leyburn , were each fined £100 and ordered to pay £20 costs by Leyburn magistrates yesterday for using a TV set without a licence . |
| 27 | A 48-YEAR-OLD Angus man was jailed for three years yesterday for using lewd and indecent practices to a girl and her older sister over a period of 17 years . |
| 28 | Four MPs of South Africa 's liberal opposition Democratic Party were suspended yesterday for holding secret talks with Mr Nelson Mandela with a view to joining the African National Congress . |
| 29 | TORY MP Teresa Gorman was fined £55 yesterday for speeding . |
| 30 | A GLUE-SNIFFER was jailed yesterday for ramming a police car while high . |