Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] upon a " in BNC.

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1 We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 .
2 Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use .
3 While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War .
4 I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive .
5 His renunciation also rested upon a dubious legal sentence of 1202 , a punitive measure against King John by Philip Augustus .
6 However , he also relied upon a number of criticisms of the judge 's summing up .
7 To a much lesser extent other towns also depended upon an inflow of migrants to maintain their numbers .
8 Having attained a First Class degree in History in 1935 , he then determined upon a doctorate , which he completed in 1938 .
9 They began to meet people in their travelling , and actually came upon a gravelled road that some lord of Ralarth had laid down decades or centuries ago , the wagon ruts deep in it .
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