Example sentences of "[noun prp] was jail for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years .
2 Mrs Mandela was jailed for six years on kidnapping and assault charges but released on bail pending a yet-to-be-heard appeal .
3 David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit .
4 Courtney was jailed for seven years on November 30 following his conviction for two rapes and two indecent assaults .
5 FORMER Liverpool City Council union official Tony Gavin was jailed for three months at Liverpool Crown Court for theft this afternoon .
6 On Monday , at Teesside Crown Court , Sigsworth was jailed for three years after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary .
7 Michael Lowther was jailed for six years and a further year for being in breach of a probation order .
8 DRUGS baron Rene Black was jailed for 15 years yesterday for organising a £15.5 million conspiracy to flood Britain with drugs from Europe 's first cocaine factory .
9 After a 3 hour hearing Oliffe was jailed for six months , as well as banned from keeping farm animals for life .
10 A MAN who advertised a series of non-existent concerts by the American rock superstar Bruce Springsteen was jailed for 12 months yesterday at Nottingham Crown Court .
11 Today in court , a year after the shooting , Demetrius McDuffy was jailed for 23 years .
12 Mr Johnson was jailed for nine months in July after pleading guilty to administering poison to his daughters Samantha , seven , and Leanne , five , and assaulting his wife .
13 After Johnson was jailed for 5 and a half years for armed robbery and the escape attempt , the Home Office said that a full inquiry had been carried out and they were satisfied there was no negligence by staff at Bullingdon Prison .
14 Rachael was jailed for 7 years .
15 Shaun Gooch was jailed for five years for causing the deaths and a further three months for driving while disqualified .
16 A ROYAL Navy technician who was extradited to New Zealand from Britain was jailed for five and a half years in Christchurch yesterday for snatching a woman off a beach and raping her .
17 Bailey was jailed for 5 years for starting the fire .
18 Luo Haixing , a businessman , and Li Peicheng received five-year prison terms , while Li Longqing was jailed for four years .
19 Conservationist Dexter Cate of Hawaii was jailed for 100 days in 1980 when he released several hundred dolphins from the bay into which they had been driven before slaughter .
20 In 1979 Vaclav Havel was jailed for four years on charges of ‘ attempted subversion of the republic ’ .
21 The court heard that Davies was jailed for nine months in 1985 for threatening to damage by fire Department of Heath and Social Security offices .
22 Clarke was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter and supplying drugs .
23 IN our report of a High Court case at Inverness in which Malcolm Badenoch was jailed for five years after admitting being concerned in the supply of Ecstasy and cannabis , we stated that some of the local youths he recruited to distribute drugs were schoolchildren .
24 Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across .
25 Spence was jailed for six months at Newcastle .
26 A DRUG dealer who recruited youngsters to sell ecstasy and cannabis in the Highlands was jailed for five years at the High Court in Inverness yesterday .
27 Moore 's daughter Jacqueline was jailed for ten years for her part in the Droppin' Well bloodbath .
28 Ms Mitchell was jailed for three years on Wednesday at Cambridge crown court for possessing and supplying cocaine .
29 Smith was jailed for 25 years .
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