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

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1 He was busy , my father , with unfinished canvases from art school , generous manuscripts about Beethoven and Medieval painters , a manual typewriter snug enough to fit upon a window ledge , and soup bowls heaped with cheddar cheese goldfish , gently serenaded by an old electric fan as 1 , in my turn , busied myself with Lego upon that slab of perfect marble .
2 And if you are lucky enough to stumble upon a village show you will be warmly welcomed and given the best seats in the house — which might mean a patch of ground under the village banyan tree .
3 Extension services were set up to focus upon a target population of every couple , the wife of which was aged 15–44 years , backed up by medical services and financial incentives to adopters .
4 Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case .
5 When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage .
6 ( When all the women were reading Mrs Henry Wood , and Marie Corelli was about to burst upon a waiting world . )
7 It is customary therefore to focus upon a narrower trade related concept than the balance of visible trade to distinguish the CU effect of membership .
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