Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] in prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | SELAHATTIN SIMSEK : a 37-year-old Kurdish school teacher , he has been in prison for more than 12 years . |
| 4 | 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 … . |
| 5 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had been in prison for three months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |