Example sentences of "yesterday [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norsk Data A/S , yesterday asked for its listing on the Oslo bourse to be temporarily cancelled — for up to two months , although it says it hopes to reach final agreement with its major creditors this month . |
| 2 | Bryan Gould , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , yesterday posed for photographers with a Co-op credit card the size of a tea tray : ‘ There are middle class Labour supporters … no , it wo n't contribute to the credit boom … change your credit card and help Labour win . ’ |
| 3 | Troubled Mr Major yesterday headed for a showdown with Euro-rebels by announcing he would put the Maastricht Treaty before Parliament around Christmas . |
| 4 | Mark Paul yesterday re-enacted for a jury how he killed a stranger with a single blow from a baseball bat . |
| 5 | AUSTRALIAN entrepreneur Alan Bond yesterday appealed for the support of his shareholders , saying his debt-burdened brewing , property and media group would survive . |
| 6 | REPRESENTATIVES of 1,600 Lloyd 's of London names who lost hundreds of millions of pounds through syndicates run by Mr Dick Outhwaite yesterday appealed for an out of court settlement of a threatened legal wrangle . |
| 7 | A WIDOW raped on Christmas Day as she returned home from midnight mass yesterday appealed for help in finding her attacker . |
| 8 | The Woolwich building society yesterday appealed for the Government to take ‘ urgent and decisive ’ action to end the housing slump . |
| 9 | Detectives in Northwich yesterday appealed for public help in catching the pair . |
| 10 | POLICE yesterday appealed for the return of potentially lethal antidepressant and tranquillizer tablets which went missing in Darlington town centre in the afternoon . |
| 11 | POLICE in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow yesterday appealed for a taxi driver to contact them , in the hope that he can provide a clue to the murder of 66-year-old Daniel Currie at the weekend . |
| 12 | EUROPE 'S next cultural capital , successor to Athens , Florence , Amsterdam , Paris and West Berlin , yesterday prepared for action in 1990 , writes Peter Hetherington . |
| 13 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday turned for salvation to Nigel Clough , the Nottingham Forest star who declared England had no chance of winning the next World Cup . |
| 14 | Alan Curtis , the former Welsh international striker , yesterday signed for Swansea after being given a free transfer by Cardiff . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S first vicar from the Pakistani community yesterday prayed for divine intervention in the great Cricket Ball Row . |
| 17 | Polytechnic directors yesterday called for more government funding . |
| 18 | THE National Front leader , Mr Jean-Marie Le Pen , yesterday called for the mass expulsion of coloured immigrants as the government announced emergency integration measures . |
| 19 | President Franois Mitterrand of France yesterday called for the deportation of illegal immigrants and for sanctions against their employers , but said he believed guest workers should have voting rights . |
| 20 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino yesterday called for tough sentences against coup leaders while the military launched a big manhunt to track down those still at large . |
| 21 | LITHUANIA 'S leader , Mr Algirdas Brazauskas , yesterday called for a united front to establish statehood at the opening of a crucial congress of the republic 's Communist Party . |
| 22 | A FISHERMAN yesterday called for a change in the law to allow anglers to dig for bait on the seashore . |
| 23 | MALCOLM CROSBY yesterday called for a halt to the head-hunting season at Sunderland . |
| 24 | HARD-UP nurses yesterday called for an 8.7 per cent rise — amid fears of pay curbs . |
| 25 | Former premier Baroness Thatcher yesterday called for Western powers to launch air strikes against military targets inside Serbia . |
| 26 | THE brother of Alison Manwaring yesterday called for a referendum on the death penalty after the killer of his sister and father was jailed for life . |
| 27 | LABOUR backbenchers yesterday called for two Cabinet ministers to explain how they allegedly spent £6,000 of taxpayers ' money on three urgent flights home from France , or repay the money . |
| 28 | POPE John Paul , on his first trip to the former Soviet Union , yesterday called for reconciliation in post-communist nations and said their people should not be divided into ‘ winners and losers ’ . |
| 29 | A VICAR yesterday called for mass action to stamp out crime on an estate where good neighbour Les Reed was kicked and beaten to death as he tackled vandals . |
| 30 | SCOTLAND 's two largest trade unions yesterday called for increased investment in public transport after a study which reaffirmed that Scotland has the lowest level of car ownership in Britain . |