Sentence examples for set upon you from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, opera critics should be aware of how very nasty things can get when the Beehive is set upon you, and temper their Glyndebourne reviews accordingly.

"One official told me: 'The crowd will set upon you and pull you apart into so many pieces no one will be able to identify you from a piece of meat.' " Despite the threats, Mr. Robertson said he has pressed the Foreign Ministry to reconsider CNN's request that he be able to stay.

Take a wrong turn in the wrong place anywhere in the game and any number of ghouls might set upon you; but beyond the walls of Diamond City, which can still be breached, Fallout 4's wasteland really does feel more dreadfully dangerous than any previous Bethesda-made open world.

Be aware of the limitations set upon you by the sun.

"Hey, Satan," I yelled out, "how's it going?" I was immediately set upon by demons.

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

Adulthood sets upon you insidiously.

In her 1929 feminist essay, A Room of One's Own, she would rail against the exclusion of women from learning and opportunity, and write, memorably, "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind".

Solicitor Richard Scorer said: "It's difficult enough to recover from a situation where you're set upon by a stranger and sexually assaulted.

"It's difficult enough to recover from a situation where you're set upon by a stranger and sexually assaulted," solicitor Richard Scorer told the BBC.

'There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind', Virginia Woolf wrote in her essay on women and fiction in 1928.