Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Hugh 's men had lifted Aldhelm 's body on to the litter , and set off down the path with it towards the Foregate , Tutilo fell in behind the sorry little procession like a mourner , and went silently step for step with them , his eyes still upon the shrouded body . |
| 2 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 3 | The years following upon the Plowden Report were ones in which primary practice was subject to intense and continued re-evaluation . |
| 4 | ‘ The Glynns were farmers once upon a time . |
| 5 | And a cassowary 's wing-bone through the nose of a handsome young fellow was a fine attraction for the girls once upon a time ! " |
| 6 | If Venette attacked the soldiers , Page did not , perhaps because the man in charge of the operation was his own king who put the blame for the fate of the civilians firmly upon the shoulders of the French . |
| 7 | As the law presently stands , it is open for a settlor to transfer assets overseas upon an accumulation trust for the benefit of his children without there being any UK tax liability on the income as it arises overseas . |
| 8 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 9 | Perhaps objects like these had been fashionable in churches once upon a time , but no longer , hence the attic . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , as elsewhere in the tenth and eleventh centuries , the Russians followed Byzantine building methods closely in , for example , laying the tiled roofs directly upon the vaults . |