Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] for five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ . |
| 2 | A GIRL was yesterday jailed for five years for stabbing her teenage love rival to death . |
| 3 | THERE can not and should not be any sympathy for Michael Watson , the mugger who was yesterday jailed for five years even though it was a first offence . |
| 4 | A DRUNKEN driver who hit speeds of 100mph during a 35-mile police chase was yesterday jailed for five months . |
| 5 | The Glasgow-based solicitor was later suspended for five years for ‘ an exceptional catalogue of delay , neglect and deceit ’ in a number of cases , including Mr Vafa 's . |
| 6 | The dried sample was resuspended in 5 ml acid water ( pH 3–4 ) which was then sonicated for five minutes . |
| 7 | Each sample was then centrifuged for five minutes at 10000 g and the supernatant labelled and stored at -20°C until assayed . |
| 8 | Benjamin Moyo , a member of parliament and member of the ruling ZANU-PF party , was recently jailed for five years , with five accomplices , for trying to sell two rhino horns . |