Example sentences of "[vb pp] yesterday [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CHARGE of rape on a mentally handicapped girl was dropped yesterday after a judge ruled she could not give evidence against her alleged attacker . |
| 2 | PRETORIA ( AFP ) — Three blacks sentenced to death on murder charges were hanged yesterday while a white man , condemned for rape , was granted a last-minute reprieve . |
| 3 | A ROBBER aged 74 was freed yesterday after a judge heard how he carried out an armed raid for the love of his wheelchair-bound mistress . |
| 4 | A RAPE trial was halted yesterday after a female juror complained there were not enough women on the panel . |
| 5 | COOKSTOWN Magistrates Court was told yesterday that a farmer forged his deceased mother-in-laws name on a cheque to pay his electricity bill . |
| 6 | Two men were arrested yesterday after a police launch halted a small boat 10 miles off the Suffolk coast and found two holdalls containing £350,000-worth of cannabis floating in the sea . |
| 7 | AN INVESTIGATION was started yesterday after a Loganair Advanced Turboprop aircraft landed short of the runway at Kirkwall Airport in Orkney . |
| 8 | THE GOVERNMENT was warned yesterday that a heavy-handed approach to curbing inflation could jeopardise Britain 's chances of exploiting the opportunities provided by the creation of a barrier-free Europe in 1992 . |
| 9 | TWO heroin addicts were jailed yesterday after a court heard how they walked unchallenged into a hospital 's maternity unit and stole an 11-hour-old boy . |