Example sentences of "yesterday took [art] " in BNC.
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1 | HUNDREDS of pensioners yesterday took a 16ft-high blow-up Robert Maxwell on parade to demand tough new laws protecting retirement funds . |
2 | Sir Alistair Frame , who took over as chairman from Sir Bob Scholey earlier this year , yesterday took a swipe at state subsidies to European rivals . |
3 | THE Government yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing more confidential correspondence between Lord Young and British Aerospace , revealing new details of secret tax breaks and private concessions given by ministers over the Rover deal . |
4 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson yesterday took the unusual step of revealing the exact cause of Sharpe 's problem to try to end months of speculation about the one-time wonder boy . |
5 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
6 | It completed a marvellous weekend for Gillingham , who yesterday took the 100 metres in 1 min 2.16 secs0.18 inside the previous world best this year . |
7 | It completed a marvellous weekend for Gillingham , who yesterday took the 100 metres in 1 min 2.16 secs0.18 inside the previous world best this year . |
8 | His positive coaching methods pulled together the warring provincial factions and his gentle but firm weeding-out resulted in Evans — who yesterday took an accidental blow to the head in training but will play today — becoming captain . |