Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is troubled for two reasons . |
| 2 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 3 | He was selected for two tours of England , in 1927 and 1931 . |
| 4 | " Your pal at the shipping office was n't hard to check on , because he 's been in our hands — no charge in the end , but he was detained for twenty-four hours while inquiries were made . |
| 5 | Following a series of strikes in 1981 , he was detained for three months , during which time he became a " born-again " Christian . |
| 6 | He was jailed for six months , fined £500 and banned from driving for 25 years . |
| 7 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 8 | He was jailed for five years . |
| 9 | He was jailed for 3.5 years for his part in the affair . |
| 10 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 11 | He was jailed for 10 years . |
| 12 | He was jailed for nine months by York Crown Court after admitting six trading offences . |
| 13 | He was jailed for 13 years after Customs officers found three- quarters of a ton of the drug in the back of his lorry at Dover . |
| 14 | He was jailed for two years . |
| 15 | He was jailed for two years by Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court . |
| 16 | He was jailed for two weeks and banned from driving for 18 months . |
| 17 | He was jailed for eighteen months for unlawful sexual intercourse . |
| 18 | He was jailed for 2 years . |
| 19 | He was jailed for seven years on November 30 . |
| 20 | He was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey after admitting manslaughter . |
| 21 | He was jailed for three years , as was his accomplice Bernard Lynch , a ‘ freelance ’ accountant from south London . |
| 22 | He was jailed for three months . |
| 23 | He was jailed for three months suspended for two years on each of the Customs offences and fined £100 on each of the police charges . |
| 24 | He was jailed for 21 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday after admitting burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car . |
| 25 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 26 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 27 | They did not know that he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor did not tell the infirmary that he was HIV positive before or after he was employed for six shifts in the casualty department . |
| 28 | In 1955 he was employed for one week by Douglas Fairbanks Limited at Elstree as a cover director , British cover director on a T V film that was being directed by an American . |
| 29 | The following year Robinson founded the Garden and edited it until 1899 , when he was succeeded for two years by Gertrude Jekyll [ q.v. ] , his lifelong friend . |
| 30 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |