verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be arrested/imprisoned/shot etc as a spy
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Anyone caught working with the Resistance was shot as a spy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
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In addition, district courts were given the power to imprison these men for up to four years.
years
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He admitted the charge and was imprisoned for three years .
■ VERB
arrest
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All seven were arrested , imprisoned and brought to trial before a High Court judge at Renfrew.
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Ministers and priests and lay leaders were arrested and imprisoned .
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Total censorship restricts information about people who are arrested or imprisoned .
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On 21 December Pianezza and Druento were arrested and imprisoned .
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Sometimes they succeeded in their aims, sometimes their leaders were arrested and imprisoned .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If convicted, she will be imprisoned for at least six years.
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The priest had been imprisoned for preaching the gospel.
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Thousands of civilians were arrested, imprisoned and killed
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Two of the boys have been imprisoned for theft.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An abandoned circus wagon with peeling paint is in the background, in it a hopeless dark woman imprisoned behind bars.
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Freire was arrested and, for a time, imprisoned.
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He had been imprisoned for want of bail.
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If he attempts to avoid paying, he may be fined or imprisoned.
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In September of that year 55,457 people or 97.4 per 100,000 of the population were imprisoned.
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She had been imprisoned by Mary on charges of treason.
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The talks are expected to move slowly because the Tupac Amaru rebels insist that the government release more than 300 imprisoned comrades.
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To his head they fixed a cage in which a rat had been imprisoned.