actual bodily harm
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A jury found PC Richard Williams, 43, not guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm and a second charge of intentional strangulation following a seven-day trial in Caernarfon.
From BBC • May 8, 2025
Nick Price of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division said Joshua Bowles, 29, will also be charged with causing actual bodily harm.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2023
She was acquitted of causing him actual bodily harm at retrial in September 2022.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023
Prosecutors argued that PC Bettley-Smith, while not contributing to Mr Atkinson's death, caused him actual bodily harm.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2022
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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