Example sentences of "was [verb] for two " in BNC.
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| 31 | The play was meant for two stars , ‘ not a star and a satellite , ’ she said , adding , ‘ It was all very depressing , but I 'm not hurt . |
| 32 | The death penalty was retained for two crimes : terrorism and murder in particularly aggravated circumstances . |
| 33 | Tension between the races was increasing for two main reasons . |
| 34 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
| 35 | Mrs Lock , of Formby , Merseyside , said the driver , who was jailed for two years , served eight months . |
| 36 | James Beveridge , 36 , unemployed , of no settled address , was jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after admitting making a hoax bomb call to Gatwick airport . |
| 37 | Married Smith , from Walsall , West Midlands , admitted seven charges of deception and theft , and was jailed for two years . |
| 38 | He was jailed for two years . |
| 39 | A doctor , one of 16 accomplices on trial with Tabet , was jailed for two years on charges of replacing the hymens of virgins deflowered by the police chief . |
| 40 | He was jailed for two and a half years , to run consecutive to his present term , which means he has been sentenced to 21 years since 1973 . |
| 41 | He was jailed for two weeks and banned from driving for 18 months . |
| 42 | He was jailed for two years by Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court . |
| 43 | Thompson , who 's thirty three , was jailed for two . |
| 44 | A TWINBROOK man was jailed for two years yesterday after pleading guilty to three charges of arson . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Terence Jowers , of Palm Street , was jailed for 15 months and Hardman , of Lytton Street , both Middlesbrough , was jailed for two years . |
| 47 | AN UNEMPLOYED man was jailed for two years yesterday for a knife attack which left his victim 's life hanging in the balance . |
| 48 | But Alexander McLaren , 37 , of Forgandenny Road , Bridge of Earn , was jailed for two years after he was found guilty of a reduced charge . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Ian Baxter admitted charges of grievous bodily harm and interfering with a motor vehicle ; he was jailed for two and a half years . |
| 51 | I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee . |
| 52 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 53 | Hence the community of subsequently famous musicians ( the Amadeus Quartet , Egon Wellesz , Peter Stadlen ) , architects ( Bruno Ahrends , Schwitters ) , scholars ( Richard Friedenthal , Stefan Zweig 's literary executor ) , and above all , perhaps , Eugen Spier , who was one of the moving political and industrial spirits behind British anti-Nazism throughout the 1930s , and was imprisoned for two years in spite of very high level representations ( another Official Secret never explained ) . |
| 54 | Anthony Parnes , a stockbroker , had been convicted on four false accounting charges and two theft charges , and was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months . |
| 55 | For that he was imprisoned for two months on Monday . |
| 56 | and er , he was foreclosed for two . |
| 57 | A judge in Columbus , Ohio , announced that Reynolds should receive £4.5m in lost earnings and £14m in punitive damages after he was banned for two years for allegedly failing a drugs test . |
| 58 | Nasser Hussain ( above ) was banned for two matches ( one Championship match and a Sunday League game ) after a dressing-room incident with team-mate Mark Ilott during Essex 's match against Kent |
| 59 | ‘ He was suspended for two weeks for the abuse offence , one week for a previous sin-bin and then the rest came from his past cases . ’ |
| 60 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |