Sentence examples for was being run over from inspiring English sources

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Once, patrolling a pier at dawn, disguised as a poor merchant — wearing a straw hat and stained clothes and carrying baskets of coconuts, tied to a bamboo shoulder pole — he raised the alarm on a shipment of contraband even while he was being run over by a horse and buggy, and breaking his legs.

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"We are being run over by a merciless, blind bureaucratic machine".

My intention was for the audience to just sit there and feel like they were being run over by a train, and that they cannot really defend themselves.

"We want to be the voice of the children, and they are being run over," Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba told RCN TV.

"He feels as if he's been run over," added his partner, Beverly Skiltern.

You really lose your orientation when you start skinning an animal that's been run over by a Mack truck".

He did it with his cooking ("Rat au Van, Baldrick?" "Yes, sir, it's rat that's been run over by a van"), his mots justes and his propensity for conjuring cunning plans.

Twisty, on the flip side, is twisted (ha!) and broken, and physically it looks like he's been run over by a bus multiple times.

I looked at Foster and chuckled, and then up at the young lady, "Uh, ma'am, lately we've become accustomed to a particular kind of fare... do you happen to have anything on the menu that's been run over by a dump truck?" And then the doctor and I both laughed, big.

You're being run over by the Cain Train.

Street-lamp shields prevent glare, for better views of the stars, and the city built a $13,000 tunnel under a highway because endangered toads were being run over.

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