Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years . |
| 2 | ‘ On that Sunday evening , ’ Corbett asked , ‘ do you think Lady Eleanor was waiting for this lover ? |
| 3 | King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written . |
| 4 | The Iraqi embassy in Brussels was occupied for several hours early on April 3 by Kurds protesting at the massacre of their people by Iraqi troops . |
| 5 | Defence Minister Shaposhnikov was pressing for unified command with a supreme commander in charge of all strategic and conventional forces , which would allow little room for republican armies . |
| 6 | Mrs Mandela was jailed for six years on kidnapping and assault charges but released on bail pending a yet-to-be-heard appeal . |
| 7 | David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit . |
| 8 | David was trained for christian service at the Scottish Baptist College and at the BTI . |
| 9 | In the March 1990 general election ZANU-PF won 116 of the House of Assembly 's elective seats and Mugabe was re-elected for another term as President . |
| 10 | Courtney was jailed for seven years on November 30 following his conviction for two rapes and two indecent assaults . |
| 11 | After her arrest , Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was detained for six hours . |
| 12 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 13 | FORMER Liverpool City Council union official Tony Gavin was jailed for three months at Liverpool Crown Court for theft this afternoon . |
| 14 | As its origins suggest , UDC was designed for detailed indexing of documents and not for shelf arrangement . |
| 15 | Univariate and multiple regression analysis was by SAS and Proc REG was used for all regression analysis . |
| 16 | On Monday , at Teesside Crown Court , Sigsworth was jailed for three years after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary . |
| 17 | Packman Eyres was suspended for six matches after the Wembley Cup final loss to Wigan and the Chemics want Eyres to sign for Mal Meninga 's Raiders to reduce the ban he must serve at the start of the next English season . |
| 18 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |
| 19 | On 31 August 1948 it seemed certain that another glorious Hollywood career was about to be poured down the drain when Robert Mitchum was arrested for smoking marijuana . |
| 20 | Michael Lowther was jailed for six years and a further year for being in breach of a probation order . |
| 21 | Severiano Ballesteros was disqualified for late arrival on the 1st tee . |
| 22 | The Duke did his stately bow at that and then Donald was calling for another song . |
| 23 | Willis was blamed for costly delays that plagued filming throughout , and it 's said that he antagonized his co-stars by constantly ad-libbing during takes , leaving the other actors speechless . |
| 24 | On Wednesday 16th December , Oxford Street was closed for four hours following two bomb explosions , one of which had been planted in a toilet in John Lewis department store . |
| 25 | But when the French official submitted his report to the WRU , only Llewellyn was cited for foul play . |
| 26 | DRUGS baron Rene Black was jailed for 15 years yesterday for organising a £15.5 million conspiracy to flood Britain with drugs from Europe 's first cocaine factory . |
| 27 | After a 3 hour hearing Oliffe was jailed for six months , as well as banned from keeping farm animals for life . |
| 28 | Chapman , his players and fellow officials joined the civilian army and donated five per cent of their wages to the national relief fund , while Elland Road was used for military drill and firing practice . |
| 29 | Sir Bryan was gone for two minutes . |
| 30 | The loop at West Croydon was retained for short workings and one was installed round a small traffic island at Boundary Road Corner , Wallington , also at Waddon Station . |