Sentence examples for could be punched from inspiring English sources

There were four number sequences printed on it: a serial number, the bus number, and a miniature travel guide, with each fare stage numbered so that it could be punched with a hole to show your destination, overprinted with the price (and in the mid-1940s backed with an ad for Watneys or Bryant & May matches, maybe).

Last March, Mourinho confronted a ball boy during Chelsea's 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace,  warning him that he could be punched in the future if he slowed down play.

"I thought at high level football these sort of situations would not happen". Mourinho: "Things were happening that the referee cannot control". Last March, Mourinho confronted a ball boy during Chelsea's 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, warning him that he could be punched in the future if he slowed down play.

Production of undated dies into which the year of issue could be punched did continue, and during the hiatus in coin production, Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber modified the design, removing light outlines between the lettering on the obverse and the rest of the design, and making other changes.

Still, though women could punch and be punched for pay, they were not allowed to learn and practice the technically demanding sport as boys and men do, in amateur programs like the Golden Gloves, until 1993.

One juror, Marnie Ortiz, said she did not believe that the female officer could have been punched by a man of Mr. Almonor's size and then gotten up and continued doing her job that night.

One of the philosophical bases for the innovation centre programme and OGIC in particular, was an acknowledgement that on one hand there was some exceptional work done in Scottish universities that could be said to be punching above their weight globally, but like universities all over Europe and in the UK, they are universally not that great at getting their technology ideas commercialised.

Often, to find somewhere I could sleep without being punched or kicked awake, I'd walk miles outside the city and have miles to walk back in the morning in order to attend a purposeless meeting the next day.

Ogilvy's opening drive nestled in needles, and all he could do was punch the ball back into the fairway.

It was a very difficult chance, one-handed as he dived full length to his left; all he could do was punch the ball down to fine leg for four.

Don't get involved in a fight with a person such as a baseball fan as you could be physically punched in the eye or in the nose for it.