Example sentences of "[noun] yesterday for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CAREER diplomat was jailed for nine months yesterday for using United Kingdom High Commission bank accounts to profit from a currency black market . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A DRINK-DRIVER was jailed for just four months yesterday for mowing down a nine-year-old girl . |
| 4 | A WELDER was jailed for nine months yesterday for accidentally killing a man he believed had burgled and ransacked his elderly mother 's home . |
| 5 | A DETECTIVE inspector 's daughter was jailed for six months yesterday for stealing £3,000 from athlete Kriss Akabusi , who won a World Championship gold medal . |
| 6 | A BUSINESSMAN was jailed for 18 months yesterday for receiving thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 8 | REBEL pop star Sinead O'Connor apologised to 3,000 fans yesterday for missing a sell-out show billed as a farewell concert . |
| 9 | TORY MP Teresa Gorman was fined £55 yesterday for speeding . |
| 10 | PRINCE Michael of Kent took to the road in a 90-year-old car yesterday for the annual RAC London to Brighton veteran car run . |
| 11 | SIX youngsters got £50 rewards from a judge yesterday for an Enid Blyton-style operation to trap a gang raiding a warehouse . |
| 12 | They took the honours yesterday for the most attractive play despite the loss of their captain Katie Dodd with the recurrence of a long-standing muscle injury . |
| 13 | TRADE UNION leaders started a campaign yesterday for a ‘ yes ’ vote among members of the recently formed Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union on whether it should belong to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 14 | A POLICEMAN 'S widow was awarded £260,000 compensation yesterday for the death of her husband 10 years ago . |
| 15 | JOCKEY Neale Doughty was fined £450 by the Jockey Club 's disciplinary committee yesterday for a breach of one of the rules governing ‘ non-triers ’ . |
| 16 | Kelso clerk of the course Johnnie Fenwicke-Clennell was fined £150 by the Jockey Club 's disciplinary committee yesterday for inadequately briefing staff who incorrectly dolled off a fence at the 3 October meeting . |
| 17 | FILM star Sylvester Stallone paid £12,500 yesterday for a police box described as Dr Who 's original Tardis . |
| 18 | GERMANY furiously refused to accept the blame yesterday for Britain 's sterling crisis — and was backed by the International Monetary Fund . |
| 19 | Sadberge met their rivals , Haughton-le-Skerne , near Darlington , in Haughton church hall yesterday for a championship game . |
| 20 | I walked — in amazing Cecil B de Mille film type downpour yesterday for tea with a young lawyer son of one of John 's contemporaries at Gordonstoun , so that he could help me finalise the leaflet for a seminar on 14th January in respect of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , which many think is akin to copyright and so on but it embraces much more than that nowadays , especially in respect of computers , TV and sound usage , collaboration in respect of research and development projects which eat investments budgets and so on . |
| 21 | Mr Yeltsin 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , arrived in Washington yesterday for talks with Mr Clinton and other senior figures in the administration . |
| 22 | THE EUROPEAN Commission of Human Rights gave its permission yesterday for three newspapers to pursue a claim that the UK broke freedom of expression guarantees during the Spycatcher affair . |
| 23 | Blonde , 21-year-old Elizabeth Dugan , who comes from a respectable family , went on trial yesterday for attempted murder . |
| 24 | Self-confessed UVF man Robert Henry ( 24 ) , from Rathmore Drive , Rathcoole , went on trial yesterday for the murder of Peter McTasney ( 24 ) . |
| 25 | MICHEL ROCARD , the former French premier and currently a contender for the presidency , won support yesterday for a plan call to scrap the battered Socialist Party and build a new centre-left movement . |
| 26 | Batley and Sheffield Eagles received a severe reprimand yesterday for the fighting which took place during their first-round Yorkshire Cup tie . |
| 27 | The Ukrainian deputy prime minister , Yuli Yoffe , was due in Moscow yesterday for talks with the Russian fuel and energy minister , Yuri Shafranik . |
| 28 | FORMER Fulham footballer Gary Cobb was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday for attacking a detective . |
| 29 | LORD Wilson of Rievaulx former Prime Minister and Huyton MP Harold Wilson made a rare public appearance yesterday for the Garter ceremony at Windsor . |
| 30 | First day of three : Leicestershire are 279–2 against Cambridge University AS the weather forecast had been jointly compiled by Harris and Gallup , there was more than sufficient play in Cambridge yesterday for Nigel Briers to hit an effortless century and his fellow Leicestershire batsmen to profit from a true pitch and erratic University bowling . |