Example sentences of "[to-vb] to prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 2 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 3 | The average black boy is more likely to go to prison than university . |
| 4 | In concluding he promised to go to prison rather than pay his fine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Edward was Craig 's friend , surely he would n't have allowed Craig to go to prison in his place ? |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet . |
| 10 | She freely admitted that when she was shoplifting she was , in a way , hoping to go to prison . |
| 11 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 12 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 13 | So Soapy decided to go to prison , and at once began to try his first plan . |
| 14 | Just because he wanted to go to prison , they did not want to send him there . |
| 15 | He had to go to prison because of that , and then we all came back to England . |
| 16 | Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all . |
| 17 | Then there is the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) , who is willing to go to prison for his views . |
| 18 | Apart from anything else , if prisons were places where criminals had to work , fewer of them would want to go to prison . |
| 19 | ( On appeal to the Court of Appeal it was held that the imprisonment was not a repudiation but a ‘ self-induced frustration of the contract ’ Quaere , would an election to go to prison instead of paying a fine constitute a breach ( repudiation ) of contract no matter how long the prison sentence , or would the Court of Appeal put this conduct within the category of ‘ self-induced frustration ’ also ? ) |
| 20 | He would go to prison , if he had to go to prison , convinced of his rightness , proud of his martyrdom . |
| 21 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 22 | They 're tired of having to deal time and again with criminals who are too young to go to prison … |
| 23 | A stunned Mrs Hanley said as she left court : ‘ We never wanted anybody to go to prison over this . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 25 | ‘ I would n't want her to go to prison . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm never going to get to prison , ’ he thought . |
| 27 | Soapy had to do something to get to prison . |
| 28 | Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities , and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process . |
| 29 | They first extracted a written guarantee of good conduct from her uncle and aunt , who are now required to pay for the medical treatment which , if successful , will allow the woman to return to prison . |