Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun] yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | TROOPS held Zairean legislators prisoner for the second day yesterday , demanding they approve use of controversial banknotes which have caused riots and crippled trade . |
| 2 | THE Duke and Duchess of Kent became grandparents for the second time yesterday when the Earl of St Andrews and his wife had a baby girl . |
| 3 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 4 | MR JOHN SMITH , the Shadow Chancellor , formally launched his campaign for the Labour leadership yesterday with a cautious pledge to examine the role of the trade union block vote in the party 's affairs and to keep open the options for electoral reform . |
| 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 | The significance of the defeat on Monday of Ken Livingstone , Brent East MP , could only be calculated for the first time yesterday when the detailed voting figures were published . |
| 7 | The Serbian forces ' westward drive into Bosnia fits into a map disclosed for the first time yesterday , which shows Serbian leaders intend to capture more than 70 per cent of Bosnia , leaving Croatian and Muslim populations isolated in small pockets of land . |
| 8 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 9 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 10 | TAGGART star Mark McManus talked for the first time yesterday about a heartbreak series of family tragedies . |
| 11 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 12 | MIKE Watkinson 's pick ‘ n mix deliveries brought him ten wickets in a match for the first time yesterday as Lancashire thrashed Warwickshire by an innings and 25 runs at Edgbaston . |
| 13 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , in Bosnia the heads of its three warring armies met face-to-face for the first time yesterday and signed a ceasefire deal for the whole republic . |
| 15 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 16 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 17 | The ambitious plans were revealed when the company threw open the doors of its showpiece development for the first time yesterday . |
| 18 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 19 | THE chairman of the Russian parliament , Ruslan Khasbulatov , called openly for the first time yesterday for Boris Yeltsin 's impeachment after the Constitutional Court had ruled that the president had acted in contravention of the constitution . |
| 20 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn has thrown down the gauntlet to much-travelled striker Howard Gayle , who trained at the Racecourse for the first time yesterday . |
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| 22 | THE wife of record-breaking bankrupt Kevin Maxwell proudly announced a nice little dividend for the troubled tycoon yesterday — she 's expecting their fifth child . |
| 23 | THORNHILL College , Londonderry , won the All-Ireland Senior Netball Title for the eighth time yesterday when they defeated Mount Anvil , Dublin , 30–20 at Shankill Leisure Centre . |
| 24 | Fry , dismissed by the 20-stone ticket-broker for the third time yesterday , wo n't be kissing and making up this time … he 'll sue for wrongful dismissal . |
| 25 | The 32-strong Skills Audit Team , recruited to find out all about the skills and work experience of the people living in the eastern district of the town , met for the last time yesterday at the end of a ten-week project . |
| 26 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S adopted ship HMS Jupiter sailed out of the town for the last time yesterday . |
| 27 | THE Danes voted for the same treaty yesterday that they rejected last June because they were misled by the media and politicians , claimed an East Anglian Tory Euro-rebel . |
| 28 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 29 | THE WORLD 'S largest floating concrete dock was officially completed for the Royal Navy yesterday , as an admiral disputed the amount by which its costs had overrun . |
| 30 | Fighting between the former allies yesterday sent more terrified Croat refugees fleeing from the city as desperate Croat defenders pounded positions occupied by Muslim troops . |