Example sentences of "[verb] to a [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 . |
| 2 | All finalists will be invited to a spectacular winners ' reception in London in September . |
| 3 | And maybe because I went to an all girls ' school , it 's not so obvious , you do n't see girls and boys walking hand in hand in the playground . |
| 4 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 5 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 6 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 7 | A 16-year-old girl from Bermondsey , south London , was sent to a young persons ' institution for four months yesterday after being found guilty at Seymour Place juvenile court of causing grievous bodily harm to Francis Ruth Waite , 24 , daughter of Terry Waite , held hostage in Lebanon . |
| 8 | He was sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 9 | Paul Dart , 18 , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for four years when he admitted crimes including armed robbery . |
| 10 | Yesterday , Hill , of Gosport , Hants , who admitted manslaughter , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for 2½ years . |
| 11 | Let me quote from last Saturday 's Oxford Mail : ’ A teenager whose night of joyriding ended in the death of a lorry driver , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for two years . |
| 12 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 13 | O ’ Neil was sent to a Young Offenders ' Institute for four years after admitting aggravated burglary and grievous bodily harm . |
| 14 | Stevenson , 20 , of Grendon Walk , Park End , Middlesbrough , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for a total of 21 months and banned from driving for two years . |