Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I chanced upon a chubby black and white brute molesting a helpless young sparrow and rushed to the rescue . |
| 2 | Recently I was in an equipment shop when I chanced upon a climbing friend . |
| 3 | This time I chanced upon a passage where the writer was awakened from his narcotic slumbers by a knocking at his cottage door : |
| 4 | While digesting my daily dose of Gulf wallpaper the other week , I chanced upon a Radio 4 telephone spat between an editor from ITN and Nicholas Soames MP , a Tory backbencher . |
| 5 | Raking through the out-of-date but always interesting ‘ History ’ shelves at a local second-hand bookshop several days later , I chanced upon a thirteen-year-old volume , titled Sieges of the Great Civil War , by Brigadier Peter Young and Wilfrid Emberton . |
| 6 | During my travels across the Siberian Steppes , some years ago , I chanced upon a team of Russian palaeontologists , who were clearly in a state of heightened exuberance . |
| 7 | Retracing my steps to the town centre , I came upon a street named Harmony Hill , the title of a book of short stories by the late Richard Phibbs ( Curlew Press ) . |
| 8 | The other day I was out on the hill when I came upon a herd of four stags , and I shot five of them , just as easy as that . ’ |
| 9 | I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years . |
| 10 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 11 | I giant-stepped for a mile or two until I came upon a picture that is for ever engraved on the goggles of my mind . |
| 12 | I dropped upon a table . |
| 13 | So I embarked upon a new draft of the Regulations . |
| 14 | I embarked upon a thorough investigation of what causes heart attacks , and I wrote a book called " Why Kill Yourself " ? with Dr Roger Blackwood , Consultant Cardiologist at the Wexham Park Hospital , Slough , who treated me , particularly during the rehabilitation . |
| 15 | I am reminded of Letterman 's tennis because as I stroll through the grounds of the club , waiting for the arrival of my transcripts , I come upon a red earth tennis court . |
| 16 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 17 | So that is why , being a good boy scouts , and girl guides that you are you are gon na put things in the car so that you 're , you are prepared for wet weather , or cold weather erm , such as an old blanket or something to sit on er , because we like you to sit upon a bank as far away from the traffic as possible |
| 18 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 19 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 20 | She hit upon a pair of corduroy breeches which would fit snugly at the waist but balloon over the hips , with highly-polished brown leather boots for a touch of chic , a maroon Italian sweater , which at 15p at a jumble sale had been a real snip , and a jaunty maroon beret . |
| 21 | And then she hit upon a scheme . |
| 22 | When the actor represents the play , he or she draws upon a variety of verbal and non-verbal resources . |
| 23 | It will enable you to decide upon a list of goals for weight change , exercise , and food change . |
| 24 | Pondering , she struck upon a brilliant idea . |
| 25 | Another , from the harbour to St Juliot 's Church through the delightful Valency Valley ( where Thomas Hardy courted his Emma ) , is particularly lovely in spring , when you tread upon a carpet of bluebells and primroses . |
| 26 | In May 1979 , partly out of desperation , we entered upon a great experiment . |
| 27 | I fear we walk upon a glass world . |
| 28 | One morning in the Sharia Salah Salem we came upon a shop of curios and antiques . |
| 29 | In one of the darkest reaches of the river , we came upon a cluster of lights on the east bank . |
| 30 | We decided upon a tree-structured lexicon for both computational and linguistic reasons . |