Example sentences of "he be [verb] for [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a series of strikes in 1981 , he was detained for three months , during which time he became a " born-again " Christian . |
| 2 | He was jailed for six months , fined £500 and banned from driving for 25 years . |
| 3 | He was jailed for nine months by York Crown Court after admitting six trading offences . |
| 4 | He was jailed for eighteen months for unlawful sexual intercourse . |
| 5 | He was jailed for three months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yesterday he was banned for 18 months . |
| 9 | In his early undergraduate days , he was banned for three months and fined £100 for driving dad 's car at 112mph . |
| 10 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 11 | In 1918 , at the invitation of ( Sir ) Ronald Storrs [ q.v. ] , the military governor of Jerusalem , he was seconded for several months to Palestine to advise on the renewal of crafts and light industries destroyed during the war , and worked closely with C. R. Ashbee [ q.v. ] , the governor 's civil adviser and secretary to the Pro-Jerusalem Society . |
| 12 | For that he was imprisoned for two months on Monday . |
| 13 | KAYA UNSALAN : A veterinary surgeon , he was imprisoned for four months on 26 September 1992 , for posting stickers protesting against the Gulf War , |