Sentence examples for beaten set from inspiring English sources

They also claimed to have been beaten, set upon by dogs and held in the back of a van for up to six days at a time.

The 27-year-old was stoned, beaten, set on fire, and left to die on the bank of the Kabul river.

In 2001, a marshal, Erskine G. Bryce, was trying to evict a Brooklyn woman when he was beaten, set afire and killed, the police said, becoming the first city marshal killed on the job since 1984.

She had raised me and my brother by herself, she had worked three jobs until she could buy this house we lived in, she had survived being abandoned by my father, she had come from Santo Domingo all by herself, and as a young girl she'd been beaten, set on fire, left for dead.

On Thursday night, the counselor, a 32-year-old woman who has worked since 1996 at the Pleasantville Cottage School, part of a wooded 175-acre residentreatmenttment center in Mount Pleasant, was beaten, set on fire, thrown down a flight of stairs and then doused with alcohol and chlorine bleach, the police said.

He was killed by being beaten and set fire to.

In the melee that ensues, he is shot, beaten and set on fire.

Mayor Basilio Juracan died after being beaten and set alight in Concepcion, in the western Solola province, on Sunday.

Wasn't it enough, I thought, that I had already beaten one set of odds by marrying in middle age?

A tramp has been beaten and set on fire in a local park and at the same time, coincidentally it seems, a boy called Arthur, whom Chris thinks of as his best friend, has vanished into thin air.

On Tuesday, Constable Yadram Singh of the Bisrakh police station said the girl had told officers she had been raped, beaten and set alight by a man who had been stalking her for months.