actual bodily harm
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Amaaz and Amaad, of Rochdale, deny assaulting PC Marsden, causing actual bodily harm.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
But a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court found her not guilty of two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
The jury returned unanimous verdicts on all but one of the charges, with a single count of actual bodily harm having a 10-to-two majority.
From BBC • May 22, 2023
She was acquitted of causing him actual bodily harm at retrial in September 2022.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023
You have to be constantly alive to the danger of disagreeable annoyance from the pests that abound, or of actual bodily harm from animals of the reptilian order.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot
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