Example sentences of "hang for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this means returning to hanging for theft ; workhouses for the deserving poor and the streets for the undeserving ; the exploitation of the poor by the wealthy ; overcrowded , insanitary housing for the majority and opulence for the few ; of course we would reject it . |
| 2 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 3 | Mildred had bought a mask which featured hair made from uncarded sheep 's wool , and which had produced moths only after hanging for a year on the landing of her staircase . |
| 4 | These included the non-payment of military arrears , the excise tax , the slowness and excessive centralization of justice , tithes , and hanging for theft . |
| 5 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 6 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 7 | The man was hanged for her killing . |
| 8 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 9 | Four young girls are hanged for smuggling dynamite to blow up an Auschwitz crematorium . |
| 10 | Hunton , ( unfortunately later to be hanged for highway robbery ) took Tawell into his firm and virtually set the young man up . |
| 11 | Not too drastic a sentence , one might think , as peasants were hanged for stealing a loaf of bread , but as further penance , Vachel was forced to change his family motto to ‘ T is better to suffer than to revenge ’ . |
| 12 | Until February of 1982 , the Beit Azem museum in the Syrian city of Hama contained dozens of torn and faded grey photographs of young Sunni militiamen who had fought the French , who had in some cases been hanged for their acts of defiance . |
| 13 | It was n't long after that Sir Roger Casement was hanged for smuggling German arms into Ireland . |
| 14 | A CHILD murderer set to become the first person to be hanged for 28 years has sparked controversy across America . |
| 15 | He was very apologetic , and looked as if he might be taken away and hanged for the delay . |
| 16 | Hanged for a sheep was what Eve had said on the phone . |
| 17 | One who claimed to revere life yet who wrote , at a time when you could be hanged for stealing a lamb , those dreadful , gloating sonnets on ( ‘ Fit retribution by the moral code ! ’ ) the punishment of death ? |
| 18 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 19 | ‘ To die for faction is a common evil , ’ said one of Joyce 's most-quoted English poets , John Dryden , ‘ But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil . ’ |
| 20 | In 1958 , a year after the Homicide Act , for example , a man was hanged for capital murder having quarrelled with an elderly lady about the amount of wages he was to receive for working in her garden . |
| 21 | The Judge said , " You may not be hanged for your crime , you must be sentenced to seven years to his Majesty 's colonies in Virginia , where your bond will be purchased , and you will work as a purchaser directs for seven years in Virginia . " |
| 22 | Lucy 's four main contacts were Major General Oster who was the head of the Abwehr ; Admiral Canaris who was later hanged for his part in the 1944 bomb plot ; Carl Goehdeler who was leader of the official opposition to Hitler ; and Colonel Boetzel , the commanding officer of Intelligence Evaluation . |
| 23 | Evans was found guilty and hanged for murder in July 1949 , protesting his innocence to the last . |
| 24 | Richard Weston , an associate of Gresham 's , was certainly involved in the plot against Overbury , and was later hanged for his part in the murder . |
| 25 | As several had tried and been hanged for it . |
| 26 | You could be hanged for what you have done . ’ |
| 27 | Do n't think I did n't hope that you might be buried in the prison for ever , or hanged for the murder of which you were accused . |
| 28 | Your younger brother William strangled , remember , your excellent servant Justine Moritz wrongly hanged for his death , remember ? |
| 29 | If she was hanged for that , so much for man 's legal institutions ! ’ |
| 30 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |