Example sentences of "[was/were] jailed for [num] [noun] 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 | ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year . |
| 3 | She was jailed for six months yesterday after a judge told her she had caused chaos and fear to boost her restaurant 's profits . |
| 4 | A DETECTIVE inspector 's daughter was jailed for six months yesterday for stealing £3,000 from athlete Kriss Akabusi , who won a World Championship gold medal . |
| 5 | A MAN branded Britain 's worst motorist was jailed for six months yesterday after clocking up his 12th drink-driving offence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 8 | A CAREER diplomat was jailed for nine months yesterday for using United Kingdom High Commission bank accounts to profit from a currency black market . |
| 9 | A WELDER was jailed for nine months yesterday for accidentally killing a man he believed had burgled and ransacked his elderly mother 's home . |
| 10 | A MAN who raped his two stepdaughters , making them both pregnant when they were 15 , was jailed for nine years yesterday . |
| 11 | THE vigilante businessman who was cleared last week of murdering a suspected car vandal was jailed for 18 months yesterday for an alternative charge of affray . |
| 12 | A MAN who set fire to his former girlfriend 's home was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 13 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 14 | THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll . |
| 15 | A BUSINESSMAN was jailed for 18 months yesterday for receiving thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods . |
| 16 | A Turkish lorry driver was jailed for 16 years yesterday for smuggling heroin worth £1.2 million in his vehicle . |
| 17 | A SOLDIER who doomed a teenage girl to a living death with a dose of pure heroin was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 18 | A ROBBER who held up banks as a protest against the destruction of the rainforests was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 19 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 20 | THE father of a child genius was jailed for five years yesterday after a bungled insurance fraud . |
| 21 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A SWINDLER who fleeced banks out of £2.2 million was jailed for four years yesterday . |
| 25 | A DRIVING examiner who groped four women as they took their L-tests was jailed for four months yesterday . |
| 26 | A FORMER drug abuser who injured a shopkeeper during a fracas was jailed for four months yesterday . |
| 27 | A TWINBROOK man was jailed for two years yesterday after pleading guilty to three charges of arson . |
| 28 | AN UNEMPLOYED man was jailed for two years yesterday for a knife attack which left his victim 's life hanging in the balance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |