Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [prep] 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 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 6 | She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years . |
| 7 | One of the students has been in prison and the council has been told it is unlikely that his overpayment can be recovered . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 14 | She 's very , very disturbed , and should never have been in prison . |
| 15 | He should never have been in prison . |
| 16 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 17 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 18 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 19 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 20 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 21 | He had been in prison for three months . |
| 22 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 23 | But that same summer thermo-nuclear war was the subject of a remarkable series of lectures being given at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study by the futurologist , Herman Kahn , which showed how far human values had been changed during the years Fuchs had been in prison . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 27 | His father , the last trained pastor in the country , had been in prison and suffered greatly there for 8 years . |
| 28 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 29 | She was brought in when it was discovered that the largest of the two rings , in Penzance , had contact with other rings throughout the country and many of the perpetrators had been in prison . |
| 30 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |