Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] upon [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 2 | They followed him through the fern and very soon came upon another , parallel path . |
| 3 | Teaching and organ-playing gave Benjamin James ( hereinafter simply ‘ Benjamin' for the sake of conciseness ) the wherewithal to leave one place for another if he wished to — they were skills more marketable over a wide area than those of his father , for example , who presumably relied upon local contacts and reputation in order to earn a decent living . |
| 4 | ( which also touched upon other problems such as the flooding which occurs when high tides combine with strong winds , and the hydrogeological imbalance caused by fish farming ) made no reference at all to the mortal peril in which Venice stands from a serious fire . |
| 5 | Materials laboratories of a generation ago centred upon magnificent collections of large testing machines . |
| 6 | His early work , which sometimes drew upon medieval and Renaissance costume and imagery , featured lone or replica figures against a plain ground , executed with a severity reminiscent of David . |
| 7 | Rural society was characterized by the overwhelming predominance of family farms which neither relied upon hired labour nor hired out their own labour . |