Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] sentenced to [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | The jury were satisfied and they were sentenced to hanging . |
| 2 | The evidence against them was inconclusive but they were sentenced to death . |
| 3 | He is sentenced to death but dies in prison . |
| 4 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 5 | Despite a statement by Marina that she poisoned Ann Bacon , Thomas was found guilty , but as there was no absolute proof he was sentenced to imprisonment for life . |
| 6 | More immediately delightful , she saw Nelson Mandela , an intimate friend of her youth , for the first time since he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 . |
| 7 | When he was sentenced to life for killing his former rape victim , the main focus was on the release of the rapist : MP 's fury as revenge murderer gets life WHY WAS THIS MONSTER FREED ? |
| 8 | On Jan. 24 , 1991 , he was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of torturing three people to death , but acquitted of the murders of the other five people . |
| 9 | He was sentenced to death in 1983 , although the sentence was commuted to a 20-year prison term in 1991 . |
| 10 | He was sentenced to death in absentia last December after being charged with ordering assassinations from abroad . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid he was sentenced to death yesterday . ’ |
| 12 | Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it . |