Sentence examples for be flogged for from inspiring English sources

It was a time when peasants could be flogged for two rupees.

Besides, that Boulevard Haussmann property could be flogged for a pretty price to Galeries Lafayette.

They had sold it to a property company, which proceeded to transform the upper floors into luxury flats, presumably to be flogged for millions to foreign criminals for money-laundering purposes.

Aamer's British wife, with or without a husband free to be with her, would be a non-person, in a country where women are liable to be flogged for attempting to drive a car.

"While we welcome news that Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye will no longer be flogged for peacefully expressing his views, that doesn't change the fact that flogging is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment that is prohibited under international law," said Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, Ann Harrison.

Having got away with the timeworn "go overseas" gambit once, creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley – who have taken on joint directing duties here – now may be tempting fate in dispatching their sniggering teenage principals further afield, to Australia: you might well guess the phrases "Down Under" and "bush" will be flogged for all they're worth.

Pairs of tickets are supposedly being flogged for more than £1,000.

What to make of the unsubstantiated allegations of kit and bikes being flogged for profit?

And the idea of old people having sex is flogged for its limited comic value.

Players who had been flogged for sixteen holes found comfort at the 17th.

They were flogged for disobedience, captured if they tried to flee, and sometimes raped by soldiers of the local garrisons.