Example sentences of "[pron] [be] set upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
| 2 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 3 | The implications of Festin in Palacio are realised in a particularly horrific version of Queen Mariana of 1963 , Perro devorando a la Reina Mariana ( Dog devouring Queen Mariana ) where she is set upon by hunting dogs who tear at her blood-red head gear ( Fig. 10 ) . |
| 4 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 5 | Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother 's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men . |
| 6 | ‘ Father , we were set upon in woodland , south of Leicester . |
| 7 | Riding up they are warned away because the castle is under siege by a savage horde , but almost immediately they are set upon : |
| 8 | In April 1707 , when the Whig mayor and his officers attempted to levy a toll at the cornmarket after the Tories had already done so , they were set upon by an angry crowd egged on by the Tory mayor . |
| 9 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 10 | Jonas recalls : ‘ … just as the Maryland crossed the coast preparatory to landing at Luqa , it was set upon by six Messerschmitts . |
| 11 | Mr George Daszczuk was pinned to the ground and mauled for 15 minutes as he was set upon by the two dogs , which had chewed their way through the wooden door of a garage they were guarding . |
| 12 | Other stories of bystanders who suffered included that of a man going home from his work in a bookmaker 's shop in the Waterside when he was set upon and batoned . |
| 13 | Walking home from his job one payday , he was set upon by two young men who hit him with a stick , pushed him to the ground and seized his meagre wages . |
| 14 | There he was set upon by three hefty roughs . |
| 15 | Merton 's early Edinburgh appearances read as a catalogue of disasters : one year he was set upon by a gang of burly Scottish lads when seeking to compete in the poster wars engulfing the festival , and another year he was rushed to hospital after only one show , having broken a leg in an intercomedian football friendly . |
| 16 | when he was set upon outside The Steam Train pub in Cheney Manor road . |
| 17 | Stefan Kiszko , the man who was cleared of the murder of eleven-year-old Lesley Molseed has told how he was set upon by inmates when he first arrived in jail . |
| 18 | He was returning from a night out celebrating his first wage packet after nine months on the dole when he was set upon at Didcot Parkway Railway Station . |
| 19 | When the estate 's then owner , James Tyrell , decided on a new house and gardens in 1734 , he was set upon having the latest fashion . |
| 20 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 21 | ‘ He was set upon by a police officer who simply wanted to speak to him but had no right in law and the appellant had the right to resist him , ’ said Mr Macdonald . |
| 22 | On the way he was set upon by five German planes . |
| 23 | He was set upon and punched as he walked near the park 's tennis courts and the robbers made off with his wallet and jacket . |