Example sentences of "been jail for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson .
2 A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years .
3 A MERSEYSIDE man who stabbed his common-law wife in the face with a kitchen knife has been jailed for five years .
4 Here 's the son of Kirk Douglas has been jailed for five days after kicking a policeman !
5 The magistrate who tried to kill his wife with a home-made gas chamber has been jailed for nine years .
6 A surgeon and his wife who 's also a doctor have been jailed for nine and three months respectively for repeatedly assaulting their housemaid .
7 A 20-YEAR-OLD Belfast man has been jailed for eight years for his part in an armed robbery of more than £6,000 from an Ulster Bank .
8 The IRA terrorist , James Canning , has been jailed for thirty years for conspiracy to cause explosions .
9 A policeman has been jailed for thirty months after he attacked a motorist and tried to cover up the offence .
10 A PROFESSIONAL pick-pocket who targeted pensioners has been jailed for 27 months by Liverpool Crown Court .
11 A Glasgow man 's been jailed for four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen .
12 Two animal rights campaigners who took part in a series of firebombings have each been jailed for four years .
13 A driving examiner has been jailed for four months for indecently assaulting four women test candidates .
14 A bird breeder has been jailed for four years after stolen rare birds were found wrapped in sacking in the boot of his car .
15 A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months .
16 The former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club Brian Hillier has been jailed for twelve months .
17 A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care .
18 Two huntsmen have been jailed for two months for knocking down a hunt saboteur with a four wheeled buggy .
19 The former treasurer of a polytechnic student union has been jailed for two and a half years for stealing forty thousand pounds .
20 A YOUNG Belfast man has been jailed for two years for the manslaughter of a Galway barman while on holiday in Salthill last summer .
21 A KIRKBY man caught with £300 worth of heroin has been jailed for two years .
22 Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs .
23 Davies , who had been jailed for similar offences eight years ago , will be sentenced next month .
24 A BANGOR man found in possession of cannabis worth a street value of £40,000 has been jailed for 18 months .
25 A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months .
26 A BUSINESSMAN has been jailed for 18 months for receiving thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods .
27 A man who was caught in possession of a stolen famous painting has been jailed for eighteen months at the High Court in Edinburgh .
28 A youth has been jailed for eighteen months for beating a man so badly his own father did n't recognise him .
29 Twenty-five year old David Taylor of Chillingworth Crescent in Woodfarm has been jailed for eighteen months for possession of drugs .
30 Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen .
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