Sentence examples for were trespassed on from inspiring English sources

Originally promised in March, the inquiry will be led by Lord Pitchford, is expected to be completed within three years, and has given activists — both operative and retired — some hope that they'll finally get the truth about the extent to which their lives were trespassed on.

"They were trespassing on the tracks," Captain Clouden said.

Grizzly bears were another issue — more pressing, in fact, as we were trespassing on their habitat.

That might explain why the area felt spooky, as if we were trespassing on sacred ground.

She felt that large-scale private philanthropic and educational activities without government guidance and control were trespassing on her own prerogatives as an enlightened autocrat.

In 2005, two Germans, not realizing they were trespassing on private property, happened upon Bahia Bustamante and, at Mr. Soriano's invitation, stayed for a few weeks.

Once he got us on some bumpy dirt road that had multiple warning signs that we were trespassing on private property and to turn back.

Standing there, after a visit of only a few hours, you are bound to feel strange – it felt as if we were trespassing on someone else's bad memories.

In "Wherever I Wind Up," Dickey recounts an anecdote from his first day in the majors, when a veteran pitcher, instead of saying hello, kicked Dickey's brown leather shoes into the middle of the clubhouse floor: "I guess my shoes were trespassing on his territory by a few inches".

The details are interesting but complicated: in essence, on the basis of the claim that two Dutch vessels were trespassing on seas owned by England near Greenland, a small British fleet seized the contents of the Dutch ships.

At their second meeting on May 8, Red Cloud informed Grant that Whites were trespassing on Native American lands and that his people needed food and clothing.