Sentence examples for have been set upon from inspiring English sources

A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Unable to move, he would have been set upon by some of Henry Tudor's men.

About a dozen have been set upon in the past month alone, including a Ukrainian freighter packed with tanks, antiaircraft guns and other heavy weaponry, which was brazenly seized in September.

Gay people in Nigeria have been set upon by mobs.The simultaneous advance of gay rights in the developed world and its retreat in some other places throws up difficult dilemmas for the West.

The perpetrator of all these lies was of course a mild man on the surface, in many ways unnoticeable, well used to avoiding drawing attention to himself, except occasionally, when he concocted elaborate ruses to both gain sympathy and distract - pretending while a student to have been set upon; claiming, when things got more desperate, that he had cancer.

There have been reports that Morsi supporters in a town north of Cairo have been set upon and badly beaten - an illustration of the potential for danger.

How much complicity is there in reading a horrifying text?" Other academics were pleased that Goldsmith had been set upon.

Back in 1931, in Bologna, Toscanini had been set upon by Fascist thugs on his way to a performance.

The group of sailors had been walking down Via Cavour as sightseers, and had been set upon by marchers, though they had done nothing to provoke the attack.

A Chinese student, the same man said, had been set upon by a gang and beaten quite badly, simply for taking a picture.

They said Ms. Kercher's bruises indicated that she had been set upon by a second assailant with a second knife.

On Thursday, many news sites, including The Lede, reported that the ambassador's car had been set upon by protesters with eggs and tomatoes.