Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] guilty " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was feeling guilty , still , about the poor royalties they had had , as well as genuinely relieved at his freedom . |
| 2 | I was feeling guilty at giving in so easily to Billingsley 's blackmail . |
| 3 | I think I was feeling guilty — although we must have been equally relieved to have the subject at our disposal . |
| 4 | She was held guilty under s.47 . |
| 5 | But she was feeling guilty : she had not given and she would not give Miss Danziger Fru Gertlinger 's note . |
| 6 | Shaken , he imagined she was feeling guilty at having given herself so easily . |
| 7 | She was found guilty by a jury on August 30 . |
| 8 | She was found guilty . |
| 9 | She was found guilty of a burglary at Wothorpe in 1704 , but there is a story that after her execution proof of her innocence was found and that this was the reason for stopping capital punishment at Stamford . |
| 10 | On 8 October 1990 she was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal of the Inns of Court Council which directed that she be disbarred . |
| 11 | There was no intent , but she was found guilty and the conviction was sustained on appeal . |
| 12 | She was found guilty , and sentence was adjourned for reports . |
| 13 | Despite this , inevitably I suppose , we were found guilty on all charges . |
| 14 | … the recent prosecution of three ex-Constables for grave offences of shopbreaking and garage-breaking of which they were found guilty at the last Assizes and sentenced to long-term imprisonment . |
| 15 | In the past twelve months , Namibia has confiscated eight Spanish trawlers and their cargo and fined the ships ' masters thousands of dollars after they were found guilty of fishing illegally in Namibian waters . |
| 16 | The previous January they were found guilty of badger digging and fined . |
| 17 | In December the Ethics Committee announced that the investigation had become a formal one which could lead to action against the senators if they were found guilty of infringing Senate rules . |
| 18 | They were found guilty of involvement in several bomb attacks in 1985 and 1986 in Copenhagen , the Danish capital , Amsterdam , the Netherlands capital , and Stockholm . |
| 19 | They were found guilty of murder and of illegal carrying of arms in connection with an incident near Tlemcen in July 1990 , when a guard was killed as they attempted to seize explosives from a quarry . |
| 20 | They were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering , banned from keeping a dog for 5 years and ordered to pay £500 costs . |
| 21 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 22 | Indeed the Court of Appeal has strongly disapproved of judges telling a defendant what the sentence would be if he were to plead guilty . |
| 23 | He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 25 | He was found guilty of conspiracy to murder but not guilty of attempted murder . |
| 26 | One Italian who was executed for war crimes — General Bellomo — was the only anti-fascist army officer at a senior level ; he was found guilty after one of his men shot an escaping British prisoner of war at Bari . |
| 27 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 28 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 29 | He was not permitted to call other officers of the Council in his defence and he was found guilty of 12 offences and dismissed . |
| 30 | Surrounding this narrative is the story of Claus Von Bulow ; how he was found guilty of injecting Sunny with the insulin that led to her coma , and then later acquitted . |