Example sentences of "were both [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer , and another former Strangeways inmate , Andrew Nelson , 22 , who was among four men acquitted of riot , were both jailed for 18 months for contempt of court after threats to jurors and their families . |
| 2 | Stephen Jones , 34 , a welder of Stopgate Lane , Fazakerley , and Paul Miller , 33 , of Ashbank Road , Norris Green , were both jailed for six months . |
| 3 | In the end we were both arrested for several crimes . |
| 4 | Jack and Arthur Whitten-Brown were both knighted for their remarkable achievement . |
| 5 | In a perverse way , losing their best player lifted the ‘ Stiffs ’ and they came more into the game , although Micky Deere and Terry Wade were both booked for negative play . |
| 6 | Many leading Whigs were dead : Shaftesbury had fled to Holland at the end of 1682 , only to die in exile in January 1683 ; Sidney and Russell were both executed for their part in the Rye House Plot , whilst another conspirator , the Earl of Essex , killed himself in the Tower ( although some suspected he had been murdered ) . |