Example sentences of "[noun] yesterday [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE United States yesterday ordered a quick reaction force into the southern Somali port of Kismayu to investigate militia fighting that led to the suspension of national reconciliation talks in Addis Ababa . |
| 2 | A MYSTERY London punter yesterday scooped a staggering Pounds 120,038.07 with a bet of just £20 . |
| 3 | The National Union of Journalists yesterday launched a worldwide campaign to boycott products from Mr Robert Maxwell 's Pergamon Press publishing company in Oxford . |
| 4 | The National Union of Journalists yesterday launched a worldwide campaign to boycott products from Mr Robert Maxwell 's Pergamon Press publishing company in Oxford . |
| 5 | PREMIER Consolidated Oilfields yesterday reported a 24 p.c. fall in full-year profits to £8.91m pre-tax , on turnover 24 p.c. lower at £32m . |
| 6 | The Pre-School Playgroups Association yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to provide facilities so mothers can return to work . |
| 7 | In an uncharacteristic move , IBM France SA yesterday launched a full bid for France 's tenth largest software and computer services house CGI Informatique SA . |
| 8 | A judge yesterday made a unique ruling against Warwickshire County Cricket Club that could have repercussions in all sports . |
| 9 | A SMILING Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in South Korea yesterday to face a warm welcome amid the rumble of renewed media speculation about their marriage . |
| 10 | THE front room of a dying man 's home yesterday became a makeshift court for the initial stages of his legal battle with the tobacco industry . |
| 11 | DETECTIVES on Merseyside warned parents yesterday to keep a tight hold of their children , saying their safety could not be guaranteed while the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger was still at large . |
| 12 | VISITORS to Middlesbrough art gallery yesterday observed a new insight into the River Tees when Indian artist Vivan Sundaram held an open studio . |
| 13 | TRANMERE ROVERS yesterday won a six-year battle to join the Pontins League . |
| 14 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 15 | NICK Gillingham yesterday completed a superb double in the 100 and 200 metres breaststroke in the Mycil ASA National Championships at Sheffield . |
| 16 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 17 | IBM Corp yesterday reported a precipitous plunge of 19.4% in first quarter hardware business , with the AS/400 off between 10% and 20% on top of the expected decline in mainframe and big disk business . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Cyprus came from a goal down at home to Czechoslovakia yesterday to grab a 1-1 draw in a World Cup Group IV qualifier . |
| 19 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp , their Unix efforts will hang separately , IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and its Univel Inc unit , and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at the UniForum trade show in San Francisco yesterday to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix vendors — but over time , the effort will extend beyond the desktop to embrace common networking , graphics , multimedia , distributed object technology and systems management . |
| 20 | THAILAND 'S Foreign Ministry yesterday suffered a public relations fiasco when it failed to produce five Vietnamese soldiers it claimed had been captured inside Cambodia after Hanoi 's much-publicised troop withdrawal from Cambodia last week . |
| 21 | RIOTING prisoners yesterday set a deadly trap for warders — copied from a Columbo TV murder movie . |
| 22 | A motorist was freed by fire fighters after being trapped in his wrecked car for an hour yesterday following a head-on crash on the A64 Scarborough to Malton road at Knapton . |
| 23 | TOURISM officials yesterday paid a morale-boosting visit to hoteliers in flood-hit Llandudno yesterday and pledged that they would play their part in helping the town 's recovery . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Labour MP for Blaydon , John McWilliam , emerged from talks with the police and MetroCentre officials yesterday to announce a new plan to handle such emergencies at the centre would be reviewed . |
| 25 | TV HOSTS Michael Parkinson and Sarah Greene yesterday launched a spirited defence of a Hallowe'en drama which terrified viewers believed was real . |
| 26 | European governments yesterday formed a united front to condemn the continued repression , and President Franois Mitterrand said President Nicolae Ceausescu 's ‘ days are numbered ’ . |
| 27 | WALES rugby league coach Clive Griffiths yesterday received a double dose of good news when Ian Marlow and Allan Bateman announced they should be fit to face France on Sunday . |
| 28 | Alex Wyllie , the former New Zealand coach who retired after the World Cup last year , was due in South Africa yesterday to begin a six-month coaching stint . |
| 29 | HEALTH and safety campaigners yesterday launched a major drive to fight stress in the run-up to Christmas by urging people to smile . |
| 30 | A SCHOOLGIRL yesterday dropped a legal bid to divorce her parents after she made up with her mother . |