Example sentences of "[noun] [be] jailed for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Knife killer is jailed for ten years
2 Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years .
3 A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson .
4 AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today .
5 A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years yesterday and his assets of £1.5 million were confiscated .
6 Mrs Mandela was jailed for six years on kidnapping and assault charges but released on bail pending a yet-to-be-heard appeal .
7 A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime .
8 David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit .
9 A RAPIST who was captured after he left bare footprints at the scene of the crime was jailed for 14 years at Bristol Crown Court yesterday .
10 Courtney was jailed for seven years on November 30 following his conviction for two rapes and two indecent assaults .
11 A MAN branded Britain 's worst motorist was jailed for six months yesterday after clocking up his 12th drink-driving offence .
12 A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record .
13 FORMER Liverpool City Council union official Tony Gavin was jailed for three months at Liverpool Crown Court for theft this afternoon .
14 A WINDOW cleaner was jailed for seven years yesterday for raping one of his customers .
15 A CAREER diplomat was jailed for nine months yesterday for using United Kingdom High Commission bank accounts to profit from a currency black market .
16 On Monday , at Teesside Crown Court , Sigsworth was jailed for three years after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary .
17 THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll .
18 A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago .
19 A MEMBER of the Irish Republican Army who was caught with bomb-making equipment in his home was jailed for 20 years at Belfast Crown Court yesterday .
20 A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman .
21 Michael Lowther was jailed for six years and a further year for being in breach of a probation order .
22 A MEMBER of a West Indian ‘ Yardie ’ gang who tortured and sexually assaulted a businesswoman for two days was jailed for 10 years yesterday .
23 A MAN involved in a confrontation between groups of Catholics and Protestants in a Dungannon carpark was jailed for two months at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday .
24 AFORMER council youth leader known as the general was jailed for 10 years yesterday after organising three acid house parties at which hard drugs were openly available .
25 DRUGS baron Rene Black was jailed for 15 years yesterday for organising a £15.5 million conspiracy to flood Britain with drugs from Europe 's first cocaine factory .
26 The 37-year-old father-of-three was jailed for 18 months after he was found guilty of cheating the Royal Bank of Scotland out of nearly £7,000 .
27 After a 3 hour hearing Oliffe was jailed for six months , as well as banned from keeping farm animals for life .
28 FATHER JAILED FOR BREAKING BABY 'S BONES A father who broke his baby son 's bones in six places was jailed for four years today .
29 A MAN who abused a young girl for four years was jailed for three months at Stirling Sheriff Court yesterday after a television programme had prompted the child to talk to her mother .
30 AN ‘ evil and wicked ’ gang of three armed robbers who terrorised two families were jailed for 65 years yesterday .
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