Example sentences of "for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Er , no he 's got no previous convictions for armed robbery . |
| 32 | I considered keeping observation actually on the flat but because of its its location , did not feel that it would be possible for armed officers or for that matter , any officer , to maintain observation for any period of time without being seen . |
| 33 | PETER SANDERSON / 15 Years for Armed Robbery |
| 34 | He 's served 6 years of a 10 year stretch for armed robbery . |
| 35 | After Johnson was jailed for 5 and a half years for armed robbery and the escape attempt , the Home Office said that a full inquiry had been carried out and they were satisfied there was no negligence by staff at Bullingdon Prison . |
| 36 | Writing from his prison cell in the Republic where he is serving 10 years for armed robbery , McGlinchey claimed he could easily tap into a central databank of RUC files . |
| 37 | The 35-year-old Bellaghy man , who was jailed in July in Dublin for armed robbery , strenuously denied that he was dismissed because of a financial dispute with his employers . |
| 38 | Stephen , a softly spoken Mike Tyson lookalike , had kicked someone into a coma , Michelle was serving an indefinite life sentence for torching her victim , Tony tried to blow up his father and Lizzie was in for armed robbery . |
| 39 | Trio in court for armed robbery |
| 40 | Det Con Bill Turnbull 's quick thinking helped obtain vital evidence to arrest four youths for armed robbery . |
| 41 | Yeah my dad is for armed robbery , for poundstretchers |
| 42 | A former Manchester policeman jailed for 17 years for armed robbery and firearms offences has been freed by the Appeal Court . |
| 43 | He had served ten years in jail in the Republic for armed robbery ; eight years ago his brother Seamus was killed by the R U C along with Roddy McCarroll , both members of the Irish National Liberation Army . |
| 44 | £1.1m bail for eleven in Blue Arrow case . |
| 45 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 46 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |
| 47 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 48 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 49 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 50 | In January 1940 the requirement was for eleven cars , but this sometimes rose to fifteen , and a special siding was constructed at Rossall . |
| 51 | For eleven more days Coleridge remained at Shrewsbury , elated by his sudden freedom from ‘ all pecuniary anxieties ’ , and longing to be home in Somerset . |
| 52 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 53 | In 1825 , by which time he was 52 years of age and had been back in Australia for eleven years , a new Governor was appointed . |
| 54 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 55 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 56 | The saloons with three side windows with opening lights above , were of conventional design for the period , with lincrusta flat ceilings and long bent plywood benches for eleven passengers each side . |
| 57 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 58 | Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British . |
| 59 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 60 | She and her husband ran a restaurant for eleven years before opening up Ford Farm in 1973 . |