Example sentences of "the [noun] yesterday [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TELEPHONE giant BT caught the City on the hop yesterday with a sweet £1bn deal in the US . |
| 2 | ONE OF Britain 's most powerful and modern locomotives was named The Scotsman yesterday at a ceremony in Edinburgh 's Waverley Station . |
| 3 | Councillors reached the decision yesterday at a meeting of the policy and resources committee . |
| 4 | ONE of Europe 's symbolic Communist strongholds is preparing for its final battle after the decision yesterday of the state-owned Renault car company to close its 60-year-old Paris factory at Boulogne Billancourt in 1992 . |
| 5 | Will the Leader of the House arrange for an early statement from the Lord Chancellor on the workings of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 following the collapse yesterday in Liverpool and Gravesham of several hundred poll tax cases because the Government have so far refused to introduce a commencement order to allow computer evidence to be used in the magistrates court under that Act ? |
| 6 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 7 | A new magistrate was sworn in before the sitting yesterday of Whitby Court . |
| 8 | Mr Yeltsin , 62 , returned to the Kremlin yesterday after a weekend spent contemplating his humiliation last week by the mainly conservative Congress of People 's Deputies , which rejected virtually every one of his proposals . |
| 9 | KEVIN Keegan set the seal yesterday on Liam O'Brien 's sizzling start to the season at Newcastle . |
| 10 | John Cross , speaking at a press conference to mark the publication yesterday of The Military Balance 1989-90 , the institute 's authoritative annual survey of world armed forces , said that the cuts under way in the Warsaw Pact ‘ do tend to support Soviet claims of new thinking ’ . |
| 11 | THE Jockey Club stepped up its battle against the dopers yesterday by offering a reward of up to £5,000 for information leading to a conviction of those responsible . |
| 12 | TODAY is Leap Year 's Day and Adam Walker got in the mood yesterday by leapfrogging over classmate Kevin Kokes . |
| 13 | Among those admiring the portrait yesterday at the Royal Society of Musicians was Sir Yehudi Menuhin , the septuagenarian fiddler . |
| 14 | well not everyone was racing around at the weekend … thousands were sitting out in the sun yesterday at Moreton in Marsh to enjoy a game of sunday cricket … it was Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire |
| 15 | COMEDY writer Carla Lane blasted the law yesterday after a setback in her fight to save a pit bull terrier . |
| 16 | … and in the arms of the law yesterday after his arrest for non-payment of maintenance to his now-estranged wife |
| 17 | They took the honours yesterday for the most attractive play despite the loss of their captain Katie Dodd with the recurrence of a long-standing muscle injury . |
| 18 | Greg ( left ) and Jonny Searle on the rostrum yesterday with emotional cox Garry Herbert |
| 19 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 20 | GERMANY furiously refused to accept the blame yesterday for Britain 's sterling crisis — and was backed by the International Monetary Fund . |
| 21 | Some of the words of Ms Galron 's song , which explores the theme of guilt and responsibility for the uprising while Tel Aviv makes merry , were read out in the Knesset yesterday in the course of a stormy debate marking the second anniversary of the intifada . |
| 22 | Michael , a part-time chef at Catterick Garrison , was presented with his prize at the Savoy yesterday by Cedric Brown of British Gas . |
| 23 | SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell swapped the catwalk yesterday for a trip down memory lane . |
| 24 | But increased security accompanied her on a private visit to the Midlands yesterday for a meeting of the Motor Neurone Disease Association . |
| 25 | PREMIER John Major sat squirming in the Commons yesterday as the man he dismissed as Chancellor put a bomb under him and lit the fuse . |
| 26 | TWO ESSEX MPs clashed in the Commons yesterday over the likely impact on the south of the county of the proposed high speed Channel Tunnel rail link . |
| 27 | No doubt he will be giving the point more thought after being assailed in the Commons yesterday over the behaviour of his Northern Ireland minister , Michael Mates . |
| 28 | THE Lawson affair rumbled on in the Commons yesterday with the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , asking the Prime Minister why she did not ‘ tell the truth ’ when she was asked why the former Chancellor of the Exchequer resigned by television interviewer Brian Walden . |
| 29 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 30 | COCAINE seizures by Customs have gone up by 50 per cent this year , Home Office minister Mr David Mellor told the Commons yesterday during a debate on the misuse of drugs . |