Example sentences of "jail for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinlivan jailed for four years |
| 2 | June 15 : Newtownbutler man Alan Johnson jailed for 14 years at the Old Bailey for possession of £3m-worth of heroin . |
| 3 | Alan Bond jailed for two and a half years |
| 4 | City : Keating jailed for 10 years over ‘ junk ’ deception |
| 5 | AMAN jailed for 12 years for robbery after he was picked out on an identity parade because of his ‘ frightening , evil , and sadistic eyes ’ , was cleared by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday . |
| 6 | A TRIP to jail for two is being offered as a star prize in a charity auction . |
| 7 | When in 1859 nine of the most upright miners from Seaton Delaval — ‘ every man a teetotaller , six of them Primitive Methodists , and two of the six local preachers ’ — were sent to jail for two months after a strike which they had opposed , the mine manager was quite clear on this point . |
| 8 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 9 | Today , Tobin was sent to jail for 18 months by Judge Peter Fanner ; a sentence described by the club 's current president as just deserts . |
| 10 | She said she was ‘ not prepared to go to jail for that ungrateful woman ’ and told ANC intelligence officers : ‘ This is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 11 | If both confess , then both will go to jail for five years . |
| 12 | A forty year old Glasgow widower who admitted sex offences against children has been sent to jail for five years . |
| 13 | He was sent to jail for three years ) |
| 14 | The prosecutor tells them that if they both confess they will go to jail for ten years ; if neither confesses they will get two years ; if only one confesses he ( the confessor ) will get just one year while his fellow prisoner goes down for 20 . |
| 15 | This presaged by 20 years that apt acronym CREEP ( Committee to Re-Elect the President ) , whose coffers financed the Watergate scandal which led to jail for ten aides and to Nixon 's resignation in 1974 to avoid impeachment . |
| 16 | In a well-publicized case , Judge Peck sitting in Wandsworth County Court issued an order committing the thirty-one-year-old Lord Mancroft to jail for seven days for contempt of court after repeatedly failing to meet four court orders to pay debts totalling more than £4,000 to Moss Bros the tailors , Barclaycard , a firm of vets and an international transport company . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A week later Michael Musgrove , 21 , was jailed for 13 years for raping three women and indecently assaulting two others . |
| 19 | JOHN Joseph McGinn , 31 , of Hillside Avenue , Huyton , was jailed for 120 days by Wirral magistrates after admitting driving while disqualified at Wallasey , having consumed excess alcohol and having no insurance . |
| 20 | Clarke was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter and supplying drugs . |
| 21 | Bailey was jailed for 5 years for starting the fire . |
| 22 | After Johnson was jailed for 5 and a half years for armed robbery and the escape attempt , the Home Office said that a full inquiry had been carried out and they were satisfied there was no negligence by staff at Bullingdon Prison . |
| 23 | A third defendant , Patrick Fraser , aged 38 , of Catford , south London , was jailed for eight years for possessing 501 grams of cocaine with intent to supply . |
| 24 | ARMY officer James Mundell , 22 , was jailed for eight weeks and kicked out of his brigadier father 's regiment yesterday for brawling at Bulford , Wilts . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A BRITON jailed for eight years in Iraq after being seized by border guards on the frontier with Kuwait has been named as Simon Dunn , 23 . |
| 27 | The headmaster of a private school for boys , who was jailed for twelve years for sex offences against eight of his pupils , has failed in his challenge against the convictions . |
| 28 | The former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club Brian Hillier has been jailed for twelve months . |
| 29 | Malcolm Conway Graham , 41 , a Kent residential social worker jailed for five years for having unlawful sex with two teenage girls in his care , was cleared in respect of one girl . |
| 30 | Leslie Thomas , aged 27 , who organised acid house parties in London , was jailed for five years at the Old Bailey yesterday . |