Example sentences of "locked up for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’
2 One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’
3 For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him .
4 let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives .
5 Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language .
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