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
The court heard Sekanjako, who was born in Uganda, had a previous conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm from 2013.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 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
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
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 Algot Lange
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