Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] prison [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 2 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 3 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been in prison for three months . |
| 9 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 10 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
| 11 | Dharsono , an associate of the so-called " Petition of 50 " dissident movement , had been in prison since 1984 [ see pp. 33286-87 ] . |
| 12 | Among the most prominent of Syrian political prisoners was Noureddin al-Atasi , who had immediately preceded Assad as President and had been in prison since 1970 . |
| 13 | At the moment the fires began , Petr Zaichnevskii , a twenty-year-old Moscow University student who had been in prison since the previous year , managed to publish Young Russia , " the most bloodcurdling and extreme " of all the calls to action which circulated in the wake of the emancipation . |
| 14 | Following Alia 's call for greater religious toleration , Vatican and Yugoslav sources reported that 5,000 people attended a Catholic mass in Shkoder on Nov. 16 conducted by Archbishop Simun Yubani , who had been in prison from 1967 until 1989 for violating the ban imposed on all forms of religious manifestations . |
| 15 | Fassi , a campaigner for Saudi democracy and opponent of the Gulf war , had been in prison in Saudi Arabia since his sudden arrest in and deportation from Jordan in October 1991 . |