Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [prep] prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 2 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 3 | He had been in prison for three months . |
| 4 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 5 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 6 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |