Example sentences of "[prep] yesterday [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And after yesterday as well . |
| 2 | ‘ It must have given you a shock finding this , after yesterday and everything . |
| 3 | This was uncomfortably like Cameron 's thought of yesterday and he shrank from admitting it . |
| 4 | The slight attack of dysentery had tired me and I had slept most of yesterday and again this morning . |
| 5 | So she put on her pretty frock and the scent that smells of yesterday and Hywel took the dogs in the van and she waited . |
| 6 | It was a pasture next to the hayfield of yesterday and that cow was Rose . |
| 7 | The combined tension and anguish of yesterday and today was suddenly overwhelming . |
| 8 | All right , let us talk about yesterday if the hon. Gentleman wants — let us talk about giving more than £1 billion to industry over the next two years to ensure that there is no increase in business rates . |
| 9 | The scientists and philosophers — and I think it 's significant that scientific study used to be called natural philosophy — they think in a big way , about yesterday and tomorrow , about the whole great sweep of mankind in the world . |
| 10 | Languages differ in how many such deictic names of days there are : the Amerindian language Chinantec has four named days either side of today ; Japanese names three days back from today , and two ahead ; Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow ( i.e. it glosses as " the relevant day adjacent to the day including CT " ) ; and so on ( Fillmore , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 12 | Caught between yesterday and tomorrow |
| 13 | What do we take to be the difference between yesterday and last night , on the one hand , and , on the other , another instance of constant conjunction , the one comprising the true causal circumstance and last night ? |
| 14 | I suppose Mum should know , as she 's always saying it only seems like yesterday that she was young . |
| 15 | Most of the exchange of information goes on before the Christmas holiday — like yesterday and today when 12 people were at their computers . |
| 16 | specifically told you from yesterday but you just , I said I 'm sorry but you did n't , you did not say that you were n't to go to lunch |
| 17 | The best of British from yesterday and today ! |
| 18 | She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself . |
| 19 | It 's the beef left over from yesterday and broccoli and carrots and sprouts . |
| 20 | It was n't until yesterday that Swindon Police announced they 'd arrested a man in connection with Joan 's disappearance . |
| 21 | The garden was flung open the day before yesterday and I 'm still reeling . |
| 22 | As Nietzsche wrote , ‘ The Germans are a people of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow ’ Germany , like a happy wanderer , must go off in search of its fortune , shaking off parental tutelage and political adolescence . |
| 23 | ‘ I flew down to Cherbourg the day before yesterday and drove out to the Château . |
| 24 | THE Prince of Wales was hissed at yesterday but it made him laugh . |
| 25 | Well that 's what you hinted at yesterday as well did n't it ? |
| 26 | The Wimbledon midfield player should have decided by yesterday whether to appeal against his record £20,000 fine for his part in the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 27 | The Wimbledon midfielder should have decided by yesterday whether to appeal against a record £20,000 fine for his part in the video , ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 28 | so feeling better by yesterday and then |