Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was jail for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BANK robber who claimed his £2,600 haul had been stolen from woods where he had hidden the money was jailed for seven years yesterday . |
| 2 | A RAPIST who was captured after he left bare footprints at the scene of the crime was jailed for 14 years at Bristol Crown Court yesterday . |
| 3 | AFORMER council youth leader known as the general was jailed for 10 years yesterday after organising three acid house parties at which hard drugs were openly available . |
| 4 | The CICB offer lists dates after 1986 when the father was jailed for sexual abuse . |
| 5 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 6 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 7 | A SCOUTMASTER was jailed for 39 months at the Old Bailey yesterday for sexually abusing his seven-year-old daughter and son aged 11 . |
| 8 | A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record . |
| 9 | A husband was jailed for attacking a man he found making love to his estranged wife . |
| 10 | A PLUMBER was jailed for life yesterday for killing two sisters in a firebomb attack . |
| 11 | A FORMER drug abuser who injured a shopkeeper during a fracas was jailed for four months yesterday . |
| 12 | A man was jailed for three years in Cardiff for burglary . |
| 13 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 14 | A MAN was jailed for 12 years yesterday and two others each sentenced to nine years after being convicted of what a judge described as a cowardly and vicious attack on a helpless victim . |
| 15 | In Scotland last year , husbands lost their immunity from rape in marriage after a test case , and earlier this year , in Leicester , a man was jailed for three years for the lesser offence of attempting to rape his wife . |
| 16 | A WELDER was jailed for nine months yesterday for accidentally killing a man he believed had burgled and ransacked his elderly mother 's home . |
| 17 | A MALAYSIAN was jailed for five years in the capital , Kuala Lumpur , yesterday for biting off the finger of a policeman who had prevented him stealing a motorcycle . |
| 18 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 19 | A RAPIST was jailed for seven years yesterday for causing the death of a pensioner . |
| 20 | A BUSINESSMAN was jailed for 18 months yesterday for receiving thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods . |
| 21 | A DRINK-DRIVER was jailed for just four months yesterday for mowing down a nine-year-old girl . |