Example sentences of "[was/were] jailed for [adj] years yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN ‘ evil and wicked ’ gang of three armed robbers who terrorised two families were jailed for 65 years yesterday . |
| 2 | A JILTED lover who drugged a young mother , tortured her with an electric shock gun and raped her in front of her children was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 3 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 4 | A MAN who raped his two stepdaughters , making them both pregnant when they were 15 , was jailed for nine years yesterday . |
| 5 | A Turkish lorry driver was jailed for 16 years yesterday for smuggling heroin worth £1.2 million in his vehicle . |
| 6 | A SOLDIER who doomed a teenage girl to a living death with a dose of pure heroin was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 7 | A ROBBER who held up banks as a protest against the destruction of the rainforests was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 8 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 9 | THE father of a child genius was jailed for five years yesterday after a bungled insurance fraud . |
| 10 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 11 | THE GEMS dealer turned fraudster , Darius Guppy , the best man to the Princess of Wales 's brother , Earl Spencer , was jailed for five years yesterday over a bogus robbery and false insurance claim . |
| 12 | A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago . |
| 13 | A SWINDLER who fleeced banks out of £2.2 million was jailed for four years yesterday . |
| 14 | A TWINBROOK man was jailed for two years yesterday after pleading guilty to three charges of arson . |
| 15 | AN UNEMPLOYED man was jailed for two years yesterday for a knife attack which left his victim 's life hanging in the balance . |
| 16 | A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record . |
| 17 | AFORMER council youth leader known as the general was jailed for 10 years yesterday after organising three acid house parties at which hard drugs were openly available . |
| 18 | A MEMBER of a West Indian ‘ Yardie ’ gang who tortured and sexually assaulted a businesswoman for two days was jailed for 10 years yesterday . |
| 19 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years yesterday and his assets of £1.5 million were confiscated . |
| 22 | A WINDOW cleaner was jailed for seven years yesterday for raping one of his customers . |
| 23 | A RAPIST was jailed for seven years yesterday for causing the death of a pensioner . |
| 24 | A BANK robber who claimed his £2,600 haul had been stolen from woods where he had hidden the money was jailed for seven years yesterday . |
| 25 | A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson . |
| 26 | A 48-YEAR-OLD Angus man was jailed for three years yesterday for using lewd and indecent practices to a girl and her older sister over a period of 17 years . |
| 27 | PETER Middleton , a member of a Newcastle gang which raided the Jedburgh branch of the Trustee Savings Bank last December , was jailed for three years yesterday at Jedburgh Sheriff Court . |
| 28 | A GLASGOW man was jailed for ten years yesterday for stabbing a man to death during a struggle . |
| 29 | AMAN who hired two youths to firebomb his neighbours after they complained about his loud music was jailed for 12 years yesterday for manslaughter . |
| 30 | A GRANDFATHER who raped three schoolgirls more than 1,000 times was jailed for 12 years yesterday . |