Example sentences of "were upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone who comes here at once delights in the surroundings , and yet when those periods were upon me , nothing could brighten my day nor lift the gloom . |
| 2 | The massive door gave way , and the Russians were upon them , stumbling through the debris , some falling to the defenders ' final volley . |
| 3 | Before William 's men could reload , or fix their old-fashioned plug-in bayonets , the enemy were upon them , fearsome in their kilts and ferociously wielding the dirks , claymores and broadswords that had always been the clansmen 's favoured weapons . |
| 4 | Some had time to grab weapons before the intruders were upon them . |
| 5 | Indeed , we could not be there , since we have neither access to the classrooms where ‘ disorder ’ rules , nor if we had would social life reconstitute itself as it existed before the camera , tape recorders and people accountable as social scientists were upon the scene . |
| 6 | Dulé waved to his group of survivors : they would attack one of the cannon 's crew from the rear ; no fire until they were upon them . |
| 7 | Outside his father 's rooms he stopped , in the grip of a strong reluctance , but the eyes of others were upon him . |
| 8 | William , who attended the meeting , also agreed that he behaved better when the eyes of the world were upon him . |
| 9 | Madra tripped and fell headlong in the leaf mould , and in an instant their pursuers were upon her . |
| 10 | The marks of their campaign were upon them all , in the dulling of their armour and the soiling of their harness , in their stooped crests , and most of all in their fixed and frosty faces , the chagrin of paladins repulsed without a blow , out-ridden , out-manoeuvred , outdone in every way , and no remedy in gallantry . |
| 11 | These benefits included , he proposed : " Morals reformed , health preserved , industry invigorated , instruction diffused , public burthens lightened , Economy seated , as it were upon a rock … all by a simple idea in Architecture ! " |