Example sentences of "go to prison " in BNC.
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1 | If this stops another innocent person going to prison , it 'll be well worth it … |
2 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
3 | Going to prison in unquestionably a traumatic experience . |
4 | 'Right , I 'll help you — you 're having an affair with a man' — I said no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — nearly there ; ‘ you 're going to prison for something or other ’ — no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — well not quite the lollipop lady but a lady all the same . |
5 | ‘ More criminals are going to prison than ever before , and the unit of resource has been significantly reduced . ’ |
6 | Before going to prison he was allowed to go and see her , and she told him , ‘ I wo n't divorce you while you 're in prison . ’ |
7 | Both Michelle , 22 , and Lisa , 19 , have lost a lot of weight since going to prison . |
8 | Magistrate John Pemberton told Wendy , who now has a steady boyfriend , aged 24 : ‘ If prostitution had been involved you would have been going to prison . ’ |
9 | He told me that he had come to the Legion so that he could kill people without going to prison . |
10 | That would have helped me more than going to prison and mixing with all them people and just getting depressed and fed up and full of hatred . |
11 | ‘ You 're not going to the Moon , you 're going to prison ! |
12 | Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all . |
13 | ‘ He 's going to prison . ’ |
14 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
15 | ‘ You are not going to prison . |
16 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
17 | Suspended sentence … granny who tried to rob bank escapes going to prison . |
18 | He added : ‘ I want you to know you are both going to prison for a very long time . ’ |
19 | And you 'd got a little bit of plaster you , you could show the court the next morning , he was going to prison . |
20 | You 'll be going to prison in a minute ! |
21 | And she said she 'd go , in fact , I I I had fellowship on , because , remember we started on that Tuesday , I said , well , you 'll all be surprised to know that going to prison tomorrow . |
22 | And erm , I knew he was going to prison . |
23 | Millionaire financier , Sir Jack Lyons has been spared going to prison after a court heard that a jail sentence could kill him ; the judge , Mr Justice Henry said he accepted the businessman was seriously ill . |
24 | If he is and if he can prove that Luke and Sonny and the other three were the guilty ones , then he wo n't be goin' to prison alone . |
25 | The average black boy is more likely to go to prison than university . |
26 | In concluding he promised to go to prison rather than pay his fine . |
27 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
28 | The depths its members will sink to were illustrated by the attempted suppression of documents concerning arms sales to Iraq — to cover their own duplicity and allow innocent men to go to prison . |
29 | Edward was Craig 's friend , surely he would n't have allowed Craig to go to prison in his place ? |
30 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |