Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] [prep] prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 2 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 3 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |