Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been jailed for " in BNC.

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1 A SMOOTH conman has been jailed for conning his way into a £40,000 a year job with the Government .
2 A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months .
3 A bus driver has been jailed for life for murdering a twenty-year-old woman who was the only passenger on his bus travelling from Liverpool to Wigan .
4 A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months .
5 A VICIOUS pimp — exposed by The People — who beat up prostitutes working for his vice ring has been jailed for three-and-half-years .
6 A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years .
7 A prisoner who threw boiling water over a fellow inmate has been jailed for a further three and a half years .
8 Two men who raided a supermarket after kidnapping the supervisor and her husband at gunpoint have been jailed for a total of twelve years .
9 A teacher who allowed schoolchildren to have under age sex and drug sessions at his home has been jailed for a year .
10 A policeman has been jailed for thirty months after he attacked a motorist and tried to cover up the offence .
11 It is difficult to see what will happen then , but no trade unionist has been jailed for taking part in trade union activities for 20 years . ’
12 Paul Ride has been jailed for seven years for illegally entering the country .
13 A bird breeder has been jailed for four years after stolen rare birds were found wrapped in sacking in the boot of his car .
14 A driving examiner has been jailed for four months for indecently assaulting four women test candidates .
15 Daily Telegraph We 've moved beyond grazing into gulping Al Rosenfeld , publisher of Frozen Food Age A Czech store manager has been jailed for 12 years for stealing-and eating-nearly £60,000 worth of food .
16 A DARLINGTON woman has been jailed for six months .
17 An armed robber has been jailed for fifteen years after shots were fired at police during a chase after a post office raid .
18 A man has been jailed for life for strangling his estranged wife , after finding a love letter she had written to another man .
19 A man has been jailed for three months for shooting dead a pair of swans .
20 A YOUNG Belfast man has been jailed for two years for the manslaughter of a Galway barman while on holiday in Salthill last summer .
21 A 20-YEAR-OLD Belfast man has been jailed for eight years for his part in an armed robbery of more than £6,000 from an Ulster Bank .
22 The former treasurer of a polytechnic student union has been jailed for two and a half years for stealing forty thousand pounds .
23 A MERSEYSIDE man who stabbed his common-law wife in the face with a kitchen knife has been jailed for five years .
24 The magistrate who tried to kill his wife with a home-made gas chamber has been jailed for nine years .
25 A farmer has been jailed for six months for cruelty to his animals .
26 An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson .
27 A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months .
28 A Glasgow man 's been jailed for a total of four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen .
29 A Glasgow man 's been jailed for four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen .
30 A youth has been jailed for eighteen months for beating a man so badly his own father did n't recognise him .
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