Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] prison " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you tell him you have a pain in your chest , he just says , ‘ Well it 's because you came to prison , that 's why you have the pain . ’ |
| 2 | Before I came to prison I thought I was introspective but ten minutes here and there is not enough to answer some of these questions |
| 3 | Gardiner from Stroud in Gloucestershire arrived by prison bus for the start of his retrial for the murder of Alan Chalky White , a man described by the prosecution as a police informer . |
| 4 | The assistant governor [ AG ] who I saw four days after I got into prison told me I 'd be going to Cookham Wood or Bullwood Hall in two to three weeks . |
| 5 | The alert was started by another inmate who tipped off prison staff . |
| 6 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 7 | On March 12 Syria released from prison 302 Palestinians , the majority of whom were loyal to Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 8 | ‘ What existed was a manuscript he began in prison about twenty years ago , ’ Gordon says . |
| 9 | Young Lord Derwentwater was later beheaded , but Thomas Forster escaped from prison to France , where he died in exile . |
| 10 | Duffy , 43 , escaped from prison officers in May after he was taken to visit his sister in Bradford . |
| 11 | Roger was a criminal who escaped from prison and ran away to South America . |
| 12 | One boy called Haile Nehari actually escaped from prison — he had been put there after his sling-shot aimed at a pigeon hit an Ethiopian soldier instead . |
| 13 | Three soldiers accused of involvement in a coup attempt against Kerekou in March 1988 [ see p. 36267 ] escaped from prison in Cotonou on Jan. 31 , 1990 . |
| 14 | The decision , by six votes to two , occurred when the court overturned the death sentence against Robert S. Minnick , a Mississippi man who escaped from prison and , with an accomplice , murdered two men during a burglary in 1986 . |
| 15 | Jorge Eduardo Avendaño Arango , one of nine who escaped from prison in July with Pablo Escobar Gaviria , leader of the Medellín drug cartel [ see p. 39001 ] , and who was one of Escobar 's most " trusted men " , surrendered to the authorities on Sept. 15 . |
| 16 | All Crown lands were resumed by the king , and in 1664 Chidley landed in prison for refusing to swear the oath of allegiance and supremacy . |
| 17 | ‘ They met in prison , ’ Coffin reminded her sharply , ‘ apart from anywhere else . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , the man we met in prison was not Taplow but someone else . ’ |
| 19 | Oh , he had the same colour hair as the man we met in prison but he was much more emaciated . ’ |
| 20 | He tells me about the men he met in prison , imitating their varied dialects with great skill . |
| 21 | Surplus yields were sold in Kampala 's markets and reinvested in prison infrastructure and facilities . |
| 22 | Eventually her offences led to prison . |
| 23 | But when she got to prison all her mates were telling her , ‘ No , no , you do n't talk to a prisoner like that , you talk to her sharp . ’ |
| 24 | He sent for Prison Officer Draycott . |
| 25 | I stopped to look at them , and thought for a moment they looked like prison doors , hiding evil secrets . |
| 26 | They arrived in July 1547 and took the castle , after a brief siege featuring a spectacular air-battle in which the outer walls were battered by artillery hoisted on to the church steeple of St Salvator 's College and the abbey walls ; the lairds disappeared into prison in France , and Knox and others went to the galleys . |
| 27 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 28 | When I went into prison I had mixed feelings for people outside — I hated them , I felt they had rejected me , they 'd left me alone to just get on with it . |
| 29 | Lorraine 's daughters were ten and six when their father went into prison in 1985 , and Lorraine was pregnant with their third child . |
| 30 | ‘ Her father died in prison . |