Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [num] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were playing for four pound for two lines on Saturday . |
| 2 | Three organisers of an Acid House party who were jailed for three months for breaching an injunction banning an event in Warwickshire were freed in the High Court in London yesterday after apologising . |
| 3 | Aaron Hayes , Daniel Williams and John Hughes were jailed for 15 months for conspiracy to rob and possessing an imitation firearm . |
| 4 | Secretions were obtained for 60 minutes for estimation of basal acid output . |
| 5 | A Dublin drinker As two Gulf newspapers were banned for 24 hours for advertising a Beaujolais wine festival , the United Arab Emirates used bulldozers to crush 9,000 bottles of confiscated whisky and 1,500 cans of beer into the desert sands . |
| 6 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 7 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 8 | The thing is , she was arrested for ten years for going to North Korea without government permission . |
| 9 | He was jailed for eighteen months for unlawful sexual intercourse . |
| 10 | A week later Michael Musgrove , 21 , was jailed for 13 years for raping three women and indecently assaulting two others . |
| 11 | He was jailed for 3.5 years for his part in the affair . |
| 12 | Clarke was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter and supplying drugs . |
| 13 | Bailey was jailed for 5 years for starting the fire . |
| 14 | In April Stephen Tomkinson , 32 , was jailed for 14 years for raping a woman in her home . |
| 15 | In October Glory Kwantreng , a 32-year-old kitchen porter , was jailed for 14 years for raping a 19-year-old student . |
| 16 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 17 | Shaun Gooch was jailed for five years for causing the deaths and a further three months for driving while disqualified . |
| 18 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 19 | The headmaster of a private school for boys , who was jailed for twelve years for sex offences against eight of his pupils , has failed in his challenge against the convictions . |
| 20 | A third defendant , Patrick Fraser , aged 38 , of Catford , south London , was jailed for eight years for possessing 501 grams of cocaine with intent to supply . |
| 21 | Later the same month Edward Bartley , a 32-year-old serial rapist , was jailed for 20 years for attacking and raping five women . |
| 22 | Mr Ride , 33 , of Walthamstow , east London , was jailed for seven years for entering Iraqi territory this summer . |
| 23 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 24 | A nurse who was jailed for three months for assaulting an elderly woman in her care is appealing against her conviction . |
| 25 | In Scotland last year , husbands lost their immunity from rape in marriage after a test case , and earlier this year , in Leicester , a man was jailed for three years for the lesser offence of attempting to rape his wife . |
| 26 | Moore 's daughter Jacqueline was jailed for ten years for her part in the Droppin' Well bloodbath . |
| 27 | Alexander Hoggan , 41 , of Sleigh Drive , Edinburgh , was jailed for 30 months for assaulting Mr McPhilips to his severe injury . |
| 28 | During an unsuccessful strike in Cardiff , Wilson was imprisoned for six weeks for " unlawful assembly and riot " , discovering during his imprisonment a talent for picking oakum . |
| 29 | In one case , a 36-year-old man was imprisoned for four years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old craft teacher after he had discovered that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , while an allegedly brutal husband was shot dead by the wife 's father after she ‘ fell into a nightmare of crime , violence and bizarre sex ’ . |
| 30 | In the mid-1970's Zelaya was imprisoned for 2½ years for his part in the murders of two priests and five peasants who were agitating for land reform . |