Example sentences of "[noun] yesterday [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendall received a boost yesterday with every first team player , including recent absentees John Ebbrell , Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley , training except broken leg victim Mark Ward . |
| 2 | THE UGLY industrial dispute at Timex entered a new chapter yesterday with the abrupt departure of company president Peter Hall . |
| 3 | THE UGLY industrial dispute at Timex entered a new chapter yesterday with the abrupt departure of company president Peter Hall . |
| 4 | KENT POLICE began re-interviewing 1,500 people in Deal yesterday in an unusual move to develop leads on last month 's bombing of the Royal Marines ' barracks in the town . |
| 5 | THE vigilante businessman who was cleared last week of murdering a suspected car vandal was jailed for 18 months yesterday for an alternative charge of affray . |
| 6 | PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand of France threw his weight yesterday behind a Soviet proposal to bring forward to next year a 35-nation conference to hammer out the future shape of Europe . |
| 7 | LADY Arran , a 71-year-old countess with a penchant for speed , put Britain back in the record books yesterday with a storming run in a hydroplane that made light of choppy conditions at the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont , Nottingham . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 9 | THE staff of the School of Food and Consumer Studies at Aberdeen 's Robert Gordon University were balloted for strike action yesterday in the growing dispute over the sacking of a senior lecturer . |
| 10 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 11 | FRESH controversy gripped Britain 's discredited nuclear power programme yesterday after the Central Electricity Generating Board admitted that the overall cost of decommissioning redundant power stations and dealing with spent fuel has nearly doubled to £13.3 billion . |
| 12 | LECTURERS at new universities and colleges of higher education disrupted lectures yesterday with a one-day strike . |
| 13 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales ended their tour of South Korea yesterday at a traditional honeymoon spot keeping their distance and looking miserable . |
| 14 | The British squad members may not be fully rested after their return yesterday from a 2½-week training trip to the United States , but their presence will serve as a psychological boost to their teams . |
| 15 | But Mr Taylor was in an optimistic mood yesterday after a two-hour meeting with Rick Parry , his Premier League counterpart . |
| 16 | GULF War hero Flight Lieutenant Stephen McNally was buried with full military honours yesterday after a special Mass in his home town . |
| 17 | A PENSIONER was recovering at home yesterday after a frightening experience in which the car he was driving was in collision with a train at a level crossing near Whitby . |
| 18 | JOHN MAJOR came under fresh pressure over Maastricht yesterday as the Labour leader , John Smith , accused the Government of unnecessary secrecy over the legal status of the controversial legislation on the treaty . |
| 19 | A threequarter point base rate cut the following day failed to brake the decline , which bottomed at lunch yesterday below the 18,000 mark . |
| 20 | FRANCE 'S outgoing Socialist cabinet held its last session yesterday as the centre-right opposition , heading for a landslide win in next Sunday 's general election run-off , showed fresh signs of friction . |
| 21 | John Cross , speaking at a press conference to mark the publication yesterday of The Military Balance 1989-90 , the institute 's authoritative annual survey of world armed forces , said that the cuts under way in the Warsaw Pact ‘ do tend to support Soviet claims of new thinking ’ . |
| 22 | THE owner of an ailing hotel battled it out with planners yesterday at a public inquiry . |
| 23 | TAIF , Saudi Arabia — Lebanese members of parliament clutched at the threads of a peace plan yesterday after a brief period when agreement to end 14 years of civil war seemed within their grasp . |
| 24 | Among those admiring the portrait yesterday at the Royal Society of Musicians was Sir Yehudi Menuhin , the septuagenarian fiddler . |
| 25 | Speaking in Aberdeen yesterday at the annual meeting of the Scottish Landowners ' Federation 's north-east region , the SLF convener , Disney Barlow , said his organisation was getting phone calls every day from people worried about re-letting land . |
| 26 | CITY OF EDINBURGH women stayed on top of the Scottish League first division yesterday with a 99-48 win over an Edinburgh Royals side containing at least four players who have represented Scotland . |
| 27 | Leeds United3 , Chelsea0 LEEDS returned to the top of the First Division yesterday with a sudden scoring explosion that masked a deeply unconvincing performance . |
| 28 | A PICK-UP in consumer spending has been detected by the brewer , JA Devenish , the chairman , Michael Cannon , told shareholders yesterday at the annual meeting . |
| 29 | A LONE Spitfire flew over the RAF 's most famous base yesterday in a final salute to The Few . |
| 30 | THE world teetered on the brink of a new Cold War for 30 minutes yesterday after an astonishing speech by Russia 's Foreign Minister . |