I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prison/jail sentence ( also a custodial sentence British English formal )
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If found guilty, he faces a long jail sentence.
a prison/jail term
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He faced a maximum prison term of 25 years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cell
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In April, Williams shared a jail cell with Wooten, in a housing assignment officials have said was an accident.
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Yoyo imagines herself in a jail cell .
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Found hanging by toreador pants in jail cell .
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He had not been accused of a crime, yet Curtis Brown spent 10 of his last days in a jail cell .
city
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He was arrested and booked into the city jail for driving while intoxicated.
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Billups was arrested and booked into San Francisco city jail .
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She is being held in chains in the city jail and the possibility of bail has already been ruled out.
county
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In theory, that leaves the sheriff nothing to do but run the county jail .
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We do the maintenance in the county jail .
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Much to his regret, his last interview - with Houston detectives - earned him a trip to the county jail ..
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Iverson and Stewart were arrested and taken to New Kent County jail .
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Living at the county jail in downtown Sacramento, he said the area around his cell was too noisy to sleep.
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He was being held without bail at the Contra Costa County jail in Martinez.
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At the county jail Mitchum and his friends were booked.
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Currently, those sales carry a misdemeanor sentence of a year or less in the county jail .
security
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He spent the first six years at the Montelupich high-\#security jail .
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A prisoner is on the roof of a top security jail protesting that he's innocent of murder.
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New doubt over twenty men in top security jail .
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Read in studio Prison officers at a maximum security jail say lives are being put at risk because of staff shortages.
sentence
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Besides the jail sentence Mr Hayton now faces and eight year driving ban increased from four years.
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Pleading no contest to charges of improper handling of a firearm and reckless driving, Metcalf drew a suspended jail sentence .
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If found guilty he faces a jail sentence of up to 20 years.
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He served a two-month jail sentence and was put on three years' probation.
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Mrs Mandela and Mrs Falati were given jail sentences last year but were released on bail pending an appeal.
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Three eighteen-year-olds received jail sentences .
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She was given a six month jail sentence .
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Last year he was convicted of breaking that ban ... and was given a jail sentence .
term
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When the suit collapsed Aitken was charged with perjury, for which he served a seven-month jail term .
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Conviction can bring a 10-year jail term and fine of up to $ 250, 000.
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The man, who pleaded guilty, received an 18-month suspended jail term at Truro crown court in July.
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Lockyer advocates less expensive alternatives to prison, such as longer county jail terms and carefully screened and monitored parole.
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Mr Kulov was accused of abuse of power while in office, and sentenced to a jail term of seven years.
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Muhammad Ali was banned from boxing and faced a jail term for standing up for his principles.
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Seven received lesser jail terms and three defendants, all intelligence operatives, were acquitted.
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Some will risk a fine and a jail term and refuse to register.
■ VERB
hold
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He'd discovered that her friends were alive, and being held in a Gestapo jail near the Pont du Sevres.
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Normally, bond hearings take place at Howard County District Court and the accused are held in jail .
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She was held in jail overnight, and she alleges in her lawsuit that guards taunted her with ethnic slurs.
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At Cambrai in 1076 a Cathar who had been judged heretical but not sentenced was being held in the local jail .
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The fact that Mississippi continues to hold people in jail simply because they are mentally ill is unacceptable and inhumane.
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Springer was held in jail overnight and was charged yesterday with assaulting a Secret Service officer.
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He said the experience of being held in jail often exacerbates the illness.
keep
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Boy, your job as the union lawyer is not to keep us out of jail .
land
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Late abortions may land doctors in jail Jackson, Miss.
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Of those cases, only half are ever prosecuted, making the odds of landing in jail even smaller.
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He had disappeared from some lists his senior year because of an incident that would eventually land him in jail .
put
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These are what have put Martin in jail for life, and Hague wants more of them.
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The AFL-CIO was in shock. Put Boyle in jail for murder?
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When Griffin failed to complete his sentence, he was put in jail for 18 days.
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Then she put Miguelito in jail .
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I know that, as a teenager, he was caught stealing copper pipe from a construction site and put in jail .
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Ed: when you're put in jail you're made to have a bath.
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Remember, they very seldom put you in jail .
release
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After being released from jail he told protestors the police beat and shot at him.
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Woman hired to kill by a family is released from jail .
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I've just got you released from jail .
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More than 30 of those arrested were released from jail for lack of evidence, but the rest remain behind bars.
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Tan Malaka was released from jail .
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Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz.
remain
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Alves da Silva remains in jail pending a new trial this year.
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Meanwhile Daniloff remained in jail in Moscow.
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Soon only one Rivonia man will remain in jail .
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He should remain in jail for the remainder of his life, with no possibility of parole.
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She remained in jail for sixteen months while a massive international campaign demanded her release.
send
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Mr Montesinos had threatened to go on hunger strike if he was sent to the Callao jail .
serve
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But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he's served two jail sentences.
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Davitt is serving a six-month jail sentence in the theft.
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He is serving a 10-year jail sentence.
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He served a two-month jail sentence and was put on three years' probation.
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Police have launched a nationwide hunt for Moore, who has served a jail sentence for armed robbery.
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His brothers, Abbas and Shahbaz, who were serving jail sentences for corruption, were also freed and allowed to leave.
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Nurses living opposite said Roberts shouted to them he had served 10 months' jail for a burglary he did not commit.
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Hillier, who's since served a jail sentence himself in connection with the fiddle, reported him to the police.
spend
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Griffin spent three days in jail after he refused to give a breath sample.
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After spending Friday night in jail , he posted $ 500, 000 bond and was released Saturday morning.
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He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
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Not because Sharpe already has spent time in jail .
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The plotters were arrested and spent a year in jail awaiting trial.
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After his arrest, he spent 12 hours in jail .
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He spent 28 months in jail and was sentenced to death.
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The man has ninety-one previous convictions, but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand.
throw
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She had heard the cops on Plenty didn't even bother throwing you in jail .
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Leyland fired one off the bar, and the police threw him in jail overnight.
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What is more, if people resort to blackmail and other threats, why not throw them into jail ?
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Diem threw them all into jail .
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She was going to hit him, even if they threw her in jail again.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clap sb in prison/jail/irons
fling sb in/into prison/jail
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After the revolution, opposition leaders were flung into jail.
rot in hell/jail
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As far as they're concerned we could rot in jail.
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I just hope the people who did this rot in hell.
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Let them rot in hell first!
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Lutz gon na rot in hell.
throw sb in/into prison/jail
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Diem threw them all into jail.
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Gabriel had broken his apprentice's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison.
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Her father threw her into prison for her treachery to him.
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Leyland fired one off the bar, and the police threw him in jail overnight.
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She had heard the cops on Plenty didn't even bother throwing you in jail.
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She was going to hit him, even if they threw her in jail again.
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They throw a baby into prison.
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What is more, if people resort to blackmail and other threats, why not throw them into jail?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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58% of prisoners are in jail for non violent crimes.
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Alfassi was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County jail .
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Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and went to jail .
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The riots ended with long jail terms for 338 mobsters.
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The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing.
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This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If I stayed there, I would have been in jail .
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It was a special open day for a jail which is now due to open in April.
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New doubt over twenty men in top security jail .
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Not because Sharpe already has spent time in jail .
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That act of citizen charity left Barry free to reclaim city hall once he got out of jail .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
charge
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Attempts to jail him on false charges , to bribe and threaten him had failed.
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C., were jailed on hundreds of charges of child abuse.
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On September 28, when a black named William Brown was jailed on the charge of assault, a mob quickiy gathered.
contempt
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The company won, and when McLaren failed to show up in court, he was jailed for contempt .
court
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Small time offenders in need of psychiatric help are being jailed by the courts because of a rundown of psychiatric hospitals.
life
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Her murder attempt fails and she goes to jail for life .
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Mynott was jailed for life in 1980 for murdering a 54-year-old man near his home in Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
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Last December, her boyfriend John Tanner was jailed for life for her murder.
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Triple murderer Vernage, 27, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey on Monday.
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Mobsters jailed for life under the harsh so-called Bis 41 regime are desperate for better conditions.
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Millionaire businessman Malcom Horsman, 66, has been jailed for life for murdering his wife, Ursula.
man
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A husband was jailed for attacking a man he found making love to his estranged wife.
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Pete Wilson has pledged funds to prosecute and jail these men .
murder
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Like the men jailed for the murder of Carl Bridgewater in 1979.
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They want to widen the law under which under-14s can be jailed only for murder or manslaughter.
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Better to be disgraced for distasteful habits and withholding evidence from the police than jailed for murder ?
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Free them ... relatives call for release of men jailed for murder .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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About 5000 people have been jailed for crimes of terrorism or treason since 1992.
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Many of the group's leaders have now been jailed.
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Marco was arrested and jailed for accepting bribes from drug dealers.
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Two brothers were jailed for robbery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gang leader Calton, 39, of no fixed address, was jailed for 25 years.
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If the killer is caught, prosecuted and jailed, it provides some resolution of the rage.
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Krishna Sen, the first editor to be jailed, was released from prison three months ago after serving a two-year sentence.
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Like the men jailed for the murder of Carl Bridgewater in 1979.
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Murderers spared by the family are normally jailed by the state for five years.