Example sentences of "were [verb] yesterday [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jobless er tory jobless figures were exposed yesterday as a fraud . |
| 2 | CABBIES earning big tips helping to ferry stolen property away from break-ins were targeted yesterday in a series of police raids . |
| 3 | LIVERPOOL 'S hopes of a European reprieve were shattered yesterday at a FIFA meeting in Switzerland . |
| 4 | A 15-YEAR-OLD girl died and four other people were injured yesterday in a head-on car crash near Halber-ton , Devon . |
| 5 | SWEEPING changes to the regulation of the press , including legal aid for libel actions , compensation for press intrusion and a powerful new law on privacy , were proposed yesterday by a cross-party committee of MPs . |
| 6 | These expansion moves were announced yesterday alongside a 22 per cent rise in Devenish 's profit to £14million for the year to September 30 . |
| 7 | TOP STORES were slammed yesterday after a third of their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs . |
| 8 | NIGEL LAWSON 'S problems with the Tory conference were aggravated yesterday by a scathing front-page attack in the pro-Tory Daily Mail . |
| 9 | THREE vigilantes who took the law into their own hands after a burglary were convicted yesterday after a man they confronted was killed on his own doorstep . |
| 10 | Details of the plans were outlined yesterday at a conference in London on offshore installation work organised by the Institute of Marine Engineers and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects . |
| 11 | BRITONS were banned yesterday from a campsite near the Munich beer festival . |
| 12 | Administrative blunders and a four-year delay in settling the dispute were described yesterday as a scandal by union leaders involved in the battle . |
| 13 | The last moments of Johnathan Ball , the three-year-old victim of the bombing , were described yesterday by a nurse who cradled him in her arms as he died . |