Sentence examples for could be set upon from inspiring English sources

The object was to break up the bomber formations so that individual ships could be set upon and destroyed.

Members of the forces that were left behind were escorted away before they could be set upon.In the absence of an adversary, protesters chanted for Morsi to leave the palace, denouncing his unilateral decisions and the supposed influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Nobody – bar maybe Charles Bronson – likes being set upon by police.

At any moment, Frodo and his band could meet a clan of Ents or be set upon by orcs.

He would be set upon, like Actaeon, and torn apart.

The Seattle kids could see it coming, whatever it was that happened after the city was set upon by Naomi Klein's "coolhunters", when it was packaged and shipped off to the far corners of the world as a prefabricated trend.

He's set upon by dogs.

Maybe Nemesis had been set upon.

As violence spread, a double-decker bus was set upon.

(Robert McCartney and his friend Brendan Devine were set upon by nine).

John Donne was set upon success and preferment, not martyrdom.