Example sentences of "sentenced [prep] 15 year ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohamed Abbad was sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment on charges including conspiracy to overthrow the government and possessing leaflets aimed at disturbing internal security . |
| 2 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 3 | His fate and whereabouts remained unknown until June 1991 , when the Kuwait authorities informed his family that he had been convicted of ‘ collaboration ’ and sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 4 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse , was sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment as his accomplice . |
| 5 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment by an Iraqi military court on March 10 [ see p. 37332 ] , was unexpectedly freed on July 16 . |