Example sentences of "yesterday and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garden was flung open the day before yesterday and I 'm still reeling . |
| 2 | This was uncomfortably like Cameron 's thought of yesterday and he shrank from admitting it . |
| 3 | ‘ You used my cards yesterday and now the three of hearts is missing . ’ |
| 4 | Israeli troops killed four Palestinians yesterday and a fifth was beaten to death by fellow Arabs for alleged collaboration with Israel , Reuter reports . |
| 5 | Walter Kent , the American composer of The White Cliffs of Dover , visited the town for the first time yesterday and presented an original of the song manuscript to the district council , which will display it in the £14m ‘ White Cliffs Experience ’ due to open in 1991 . |
| 6 | These are the main recommendations of a report from the Hundred Group of senior British finance directors , published yesterday and circulated to ministers and senior civil servants . |
| 7 | THE 120 musicians of the great Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra shut themselves up in a secret conclave yesterday and elected a conductor who is almost the exact opposite of the late Herbert von Karajan : the Italian Claudio Abbado . |
| 8 | MICHAEL ROBERTS recorded his second consecutive century in this country when winning the last race on Power Shift at Folkestone yesterday and can take this season 's total beyond 100 at York this afternoon , writes Hyperion . |
| 9 | There was a drafting meeting yesterday and discussions are under way in a Council of Ministers working group and various committees of the European Parliament . |
| 10 | LWT revealed the details of a similar scheme yesterday and also let slip that its advertising revenue and market share were on the slide . |
| 11 | Greek bidders descended on the sale yesterday and drove up prices . |
| 12 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 13 | Yesterday and today the Royal Air Forces Association provided care for elderly and disabled ex RAF men and women . |
| 14 | I got her letter yesterday and I took the first plane . |
| 15 | Nationalists in Moldavia fought police and troops late yesterday and unofficial reports said dozens of people were injured , some seriously . |
| 16 | The Elsworth stable had good news regarding Barnbrook Again , who worked with all his old zest yesterday and will run in the North Street Chase at Newbury on Saturday . |
| 17 | The Queen was forced to cancel two engagements yesterday and another today because she has flu . |
| 18 | Despite her declaration of a state of emergency yesterday and the government 's announcement early today that the rebels had agreed to return to their barracks , the events of the last six days can only be seen as a colossal confession of weakness on Mrs Aquino 's part . |
| 19 | Separatist Muslim militants kidnapped the daughter of an Indian minister yesterday and are demanding the release of five jailed colleagues as ransom , police said . |
| 20 | Around 400 leftwing priests , students and human rights activists staged a demonstration near Ms Aquino 's palace yesterday and condemned her for seeking US help to crush the coup attempt . |
| 21 | He arrived at Edinburgh 's Blair Street station early yesterday and told police he wanted to stay in Britain . |
| 22 | Jeremy Smith , 26 , unemployed , of Leicester , was put on probation yesterday and banned from driving for 30 years after being convicted of his eighth drink-driving offence .. |
| 23 | With Mr Norman Tebbit , the former Cabinet minister , he has sponsored an early-day motion , tabled yesterday and signed by 111 Tories . |
| 24 | THE Prince of Wales renewed his criticism of English teaching in schools yesterday and declared the English language had declined into a ‘ dismal wasteland of banality , cliche and casual obscenity ’ . |
| 25 | THE Prince of Wales renewed his condemnation of English teaching in schools yesterday and declared the English language had declined into a ‘ dismal wasteland of banality , cliche and casual obscenity ’ . |
| 26 | Further meetings examining the situation went on yesterday and the council plans to make an announcement today . |
| 27 | Fines of at least £50,000 were being widely predicted yesterday and there was speculation that Wimbledon 's punishment might even top the £75,000 Chelsea had to pay last year after crowd trouble at Stamford Bridge . |
| 28 | Salvage experts extinguished a fire on an Iranian oil tanker early yesterday and stemmed a leak that had caused a 30-mile oil slick 100 miles off Morocco , a maritime official said . |
| 29 | A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years yesterday and his assets of £1.5 million were confiscated . |
| 30 | PUTNEY buried one of its favourite sons yesterday and bore testament to a passing era . |