Example sentences of "was set upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jonas recalls : ‘ … just as the Maryland crossed the coast preparatory to landing at Luqa , it was set upon by six Messerschmitts . |
| 5 | A police spokesman said Saints ' midfielder Terry Hurlock was set upon inside the club and former Arsenal forward Perry Groves helped restrain the attacker . |
| 6 | There he was set upon by three hefty roughs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Young women , for example , who were ‘ arm-in-arm right across the pavement , and kept pushing people off ’ , or another court report which described how ‘ a respectably-dressed young girl was set upon by four factory girls and unmercifully beaten ’ . |
| 9 | The subject was set upon firm foundations around 1930 by Emmy Noether and van der Waerden using an abstract algebraic approach . |
| 10 | Here , in the summer of the year 778 , the rear guard of the army of the Christian King Charlemagne , on its way back into France from Spain and from warring with the paynim hordes of Islam , was set upon and routed . |
| 11 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 12 | The Revd Edward Chichester published a pamphlet in 1818 entitled Oppressions and Cruelties of Irish Revenue Officers , in which he described how , in 1810 , a detachment of the army led by Coffey was set upon and disarmed by the country people near Culdaff in Inishowen , and he himself was beaten ‘ until he was supposed to be dead ’ . |
| 13 | A star was set upon my forehead . |
| 14 | Women going to the mosque had their veils snatched off ; a Moslem waterseller was set upon and beaten ; Moslem stalls in the market were upset ; and during the evening call to prayer a bell had been rung loudly . |
| 15 | when he was set upon outside The Steam Train pub in Cheney Manor road . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 20 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 21 | He ( Mr Winning ) was set upon and he was given a merciless beating , which caused the injuries from which he subsequently died . ’ |
| 22 | They decided to help after hearing how the woman , who does not want to be named , was set upon by two boys near the Red Hall estate in Darlington last week . |
| 23 | The three sprang into action after hearing how the woman , who does not want to be named , was set upon by the boys near the Red Hall estate in Darlington last week . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | On the way he was set upon by five German planes . |
| 26 | Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother 's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men . |
| 27 | 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 . |