Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] guilty " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 14 October 1991 Mr. Butler had been found guilty of contempt of court by breaching the injunction granted on 12 September 1991 and was sentenced to four weeks in prison , the sentence being suspended for six months . |
| 2 | Noriega had been found guilty in April on eight charges following a seven-month trial [ see p. 38857 ] . |
| 3 | In December 1991 Keating had been found guilty in a Californian state court on 17 counts of fraud [ see p. 38669 ] . |
| 4 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 5 | When I was 12 years of age , a woman in one of the small villages not far from Riyadh had been found guilty of adultery . |