Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] to prison [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a separate development on Jan. 27 , nearly 1,000 students attempted to storm the villa where Ershad was being detained , demanding that he be transferred to prison within 24 hours . |
| 2 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 3 | He was sent to prison for life . |
| 4 | From the early days he seems to have become involved in trade-union activities , and for his part in the Manchester strike of 1818 he was sent to prison for two years in 1819 . |
| 5 | He was sent to prison on the Isle of Man . |