Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at the hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS correspondent , like many others , has suffered at the hands of groups under instruction . |
| 2 | She 'd stood there , shivering with the cold , her already ragged clothes ripped further by the rough handling she 'd endured at the hands of the militia . |
| 3 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 4 | Past experience in nursing can also reflect a very hierarchical , even military approach , and some ‘ procedures ’ may have suffered at the hands of obsessional and aggressive teaching . |
| 5 | At the same time it assured that those who , under weaker leadership , might have suffered at the hands of armies , could live in greater security . |
| 6 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 7 | We write this section with feeling , having suffered at the hands of indifferent members of committees . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the graph on page 44 shows that homelessness has become an ever-increasing feature of the Tory years , Homelessness began to hit home in a big way when the property-owning democracy started suffering at the hands of the repo-man . |
| 9 | Individuals could and did suffer at the hands of individual kings . |
| 10 | But when the King of Toledo heard of the hurt which he had received at the hands of the Cid , he sent to King Don Alfonso to complain thereof , and the King was greatly troubled . |
| 11 | He had run away from his home in Chicago when he was fifteen and still bore the scars from the beating he had received at the hands of his father after his parents had discovered he was gay . |
| 12 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 13 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 14 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 15 | In the psychic economy of the universe a compensation must exist for the reverses Jaq had suffered at the hands of the Harlequin man . |
| 16 | The Aborigines had suffered at the hands of the sealers — many of the women were kidnapped and put to work plucking birds for the feather trade — but they retained their custom of a spontaneous welcome for anyone who put into port on the island . |
| 17 | Sir Hugh said he understood that the successes of the security forces were of little comfort to those who had suffered at the hands of terrorists . |
| 18 | The people of Northern Ireland naturally and rightly reason that if what they have suffered at the hands of the southern-spawned IRA , they have suffered while a majority , how much greater would that persecution not be if they ever entered a state in which they were a perpetual minority . |
| 19 | Even by House of Commons standards his words of condemnation and pledges on security rang like an empty barrel in the ears of those who have suffered at the hands of the terrorists for more than 20 years . |
| 20 | I read of tigers , rattlesnakes and circus animals , all of who have suffered at the hands of the human race , vowing I will never treat an animal in these ways . |
| 21 | In court , those who have suffered at the hands of criminals are comforted by relatives and Victim Support counsellors . |
| 22 | Imran Khan and several West Indian players , such as Viv Richards and Malcom Marshall , have suffered at the hands of Yorkshire crowds . |
| 23 | Will the Secretary of State call on the Roman Catholic Church — many of whose members have suffered at the hands of the IRA — to excommunicate those members of the IRA whose hands are dripping with the blood of innocent victims ? |
| 24 | It is not just the great majority of the people of Scotland who have suffered at the hands of Lamont and the Tory Government , but people all over the UK . |
| 25 | So far 3045 men women and children have died at the hands of terrorists from both sides of the sectarian divide . |
| 26 | From 1965 , when hanging was abolished to 1987 , thirty- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? people have died at the hands of men who 've killed before , served a prison sentence and been released . |
| 27 | From 1965 , when hanging was abolished to 1987 , thirty- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? people have died at the hands of men who 've killed before , served a prison sentence and been released . |
| 28 | A number of women have died at the hands of the security forces and in tragic accidents . |