Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 6 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been in prison for three months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 15 | His father , the last trained pastor in the country , had been in prison and suffered greatly there for 8 years . |
| 16 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
| 20 | Following Alia 's call for greater religious toleration , Vatican and Yugoslav sources reported that 5,000 people attended a Catholic mass in Shkoder on Nov. 16 conducted by Archbishop Simun Yubani , who had been in prison from 1967 until 1989 for violating the ban imposed on all forms of religious manifestations . |
| 21 | Dharsono , an associate of the so-called " Petition of 50 " dissident movement , had been in prison since 1984 [ see pp. 33286-87 ] . |
| 22 | Among the most prominent of Syrian political prisoners was Noureddin al-Atasi , who had immediately preceded Assad as President and had been in prison since 1970 . |
| 23 | Fassi , a campaigner for Saudi democracy and opponent of the Gulf war , had been in prison in Saudi Arabia since his sudden arrest in and deportation from Jordan in October 1991 . |
| 24 | At the moment the fires began , Petr Zaichnevskii , a twenty-year-old Moscow University student who had been in prison since the previous year , managed to publish Young Russia , " the most bloodcurdling and extreme " of all the calls to action which circulated in the wake of the emancipation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Desi Grew had been in prison several times for terrorist offences , Martin McCoffey had left Dungannon Council only a few weeks ago . |