Example sentences of "[verb] [been] in prison [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GIANNIA TSORTSOS : a 20-year-old student of computer science from Athens , he has been in prison since September 1991 for refusing on grounds of conscience to perform military service . |
| 2 | SELAHATTIN SIMSEK : a 37-year-old Kurdish school teacher , he has been in prison for more than 12 years . |
| 3 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 4 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 5 | We learn that Sister Chiang has been in prison for 3 weeks , but has not revealed a word about the guerrillas , in spite of torture . |
| 6 | In the next cell there is a wild-looking man who has been in prison for 8 years , and whose long , unkempt hair has gone white . |
| 7 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 8 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 9 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 10 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 11 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |
| 12 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 13 | He had been in prison for three months . |
| 14 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 15 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
| 16 | Dharsono , an associate of the so-called " Petition of 50 " dissident movement , had been in prison since 1984 [ see pp. 33286-87 ] . |
| 17 | Among the most prominent of Syrian political prisoners was Noureddin al-Atasi , who had immediately preceded Assad as President and had been in prison since 1970 . |
| 18 | At the moment the fires began , Petr Zaichnevskii , a twenty-year-old Moscow University student who had been in prison since the previous year , managed to publish Young Russia , " the most bloodcurdling and extreme " of all the calls to action which circulated in the wake of the emancipation . |
| 19 | Following Alia 's call for greater religious toleration , Vatican and Yugoslav sources reported that 5,000 people attended a Catholic mass in Shkoder on Nov. 16 conducted by Archbishop Simun Yubani , who had been in prison from 1967 until 1989 for violating the ban imposed on all forms of religious manifestations . |
| 20 | Fassi , a campaigner for Saudi democracy and opponent of the Gulf war , had been in prison in Saudi Arabia since his sudden arrest in and deportation from Jordan in October 1991 . |
| 21 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 22 | I 've been in prison for assault , robbery , shoplifting and burglary . |
| 23 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 24 | People who have been in prison in Zaire , Somalia and many other places find it hard , after the long , arduous and frightening experience of travelling abroad to seek asylum , to talk instantly about everything that happened . |
| 25 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 26 | A cyclist who 's been in prison in Nepal for over a month could be freed later this week . |