Example sentences of "be hauled over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was angry , having just been hauled over the coals by Kragan and Frick for not getting the Englishman to talk . |
| 2 | The spokesman also admitted that it 's not the first time the ladies have been hauled over the coals for selling fags . |
| 3 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |
| 4 | BANK chiefs are to be hauled over the coals by Chancellor Norman Lamont over the way they treat small businesses . |
| 5 | 1 In law and in theory , the individual minister was , in effect , the same as the Department : he was responsible for everything that went on in his office ( whether he knew about it or not ) and might be hauled over the coals and forced to resign if Parliament disapproved of his personal acts , the general conduct of his Department , or acts done ( or left undone ) in the name of his departmental officials . |
| 6 | We would n't like to be hauled over the coals by the veterinary council for unprofessional conduct . ’ |
| 7 | BLUNDERING builders who have made residents ' lives a misery are set to be hauled over the coals by angry councillors . |
| 8 | Erich Riedl , the right-wing junior aerospace minister who was to give an official speech at the do , was hauled over the coals by his bosses . |