Sentence examples for beaten put from inspiring English sources

"In other countries I had been beaten, put in prison, punished, for no crime.

Those who did not die were beaten, put on a train in stifling heat and taken to a small town.

I was beaten … put in a padded cell.

Prominent MDC people are frequently beaten up, put behind bars and even murdered.

When he was young, he was beaten and put in a cage in a freak show.

He and his men had been beaten and put in jail, a guard at the palace told me.

However, she said "young men being beaten and put in prison and hanged all across the world, including some Commonwealth countries, is not a joke".

Azarenka, last year's beaten finalist, put in a strong and wily performance, manipulating her opponent around the court, but in truth her victory owed as much to world number 99 Pfizenmaier's inadequacies as her own brilliance.

And that these were, in the fights of Leuctra and Tegyrae, beaten and put to flight by Pelopidas is confessed; whereas Polybius writes that Hannibal was never so much as once vanquished by Marcellus, but remained invincible in all encounters till Scipio came.

His father was an engineer at the BBC ("At home we had the most unbelievably mystical hi-fi system, which is why I've never been scared of technology"), and his mother's father was a conscientious objector during the Second World War ("The lumps on his arms were from where he'd been beaten; people put excrement through his letter box").

He has endured house arrest in the upper floor of his home for six years; he has repeatedly denounced Ahmadinejad's nuclear and even economic policies; he was one of very few public figures to support the student protesters who were beaten and put down in 1999; and he has even defended the rights of Iran's most persecuted minority, the Bahai.