Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] upon the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and suddenly came upon the river , |
| 2 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 3 | The cash value to be placed upon a first appointment as writer or cadet is uncertain , for it obviously depended upon the number of years in which a candidate would draw the salary , but contemporaries no doubt took the possibility of an early death from disease into account when they spoke of a value of £1,000 . |
| 4 | Although Marx highlighted the necessity of the proportionality between use-values in such exchanges in the passage just quoted from , in his own analysis he still concentrated upon the creation of value and surplus-value in his examination of the capitalist production process . |
| 5 | Rutt also drew upon the 1659 record to annotate , supplement , and modify Burton 's . |
| 6 | The growth of what Paul Addison has called ‘ Attlee consensus ’ clearly drew upon the kind of ideas represented in the Picture Post issue . |
| 7 | In his travels he also came upon the lost Elf realm of Athel-Loren . |
| 8 | Observing that the effective school can help the disadvantaged child to make use of the opportunities schools provide , the report also commented upon the scale of the contribution which the effective school could make . |
| 9 | A stimulating approach to The Mediterranean Valleys provided by Vita-Finzi ( 1969 ) also relied upon the close association between human activity and valley evolution as exemplified in the sediments in valley floors and revealed a fascinating sequence . |
| 10 | It also called upon the Commission to co-operate more closely with the Council of Europe and UNESCO on such initiatives in Europe . |
| 11 | The communiqué also called upon the United States to implement its recently announced decision to dismantle its chemical-weapons incineration plant at Johnston Atoll , and criticized the US government 's " inadequate " consultations before beginning the destruction project . |
| 12 | The Dene-Metis agreement later foundered upon the requirement that the natives surrender their aboriginal rights to other lands . |
| 13 | In April of 1990 , George Bush conferred upon the brave Airbus-slaying Captain Will Rogers the Legion of Merit , an honour also bestowed upon the officer abroad the Vincennes responsible for anti-aircraft warfare . |
| 14 | But persecution mainly came upon the church from the Roman government . |
| 15 | In our explorations , ostensibly in search of good compositions to sketch , we often came upon the nuns : a solitary sister on her knees in front of a grotto , a nervous magpie secreting days off purgatory , would fly up ; a group of novices , disturbed roller-skating or playing the guitar , would look to their novice-mistress for permission to accept a boiled sweet . |
| 16 | The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon . |
| 17 | SUDDENLY , the course of history seemed to change : penalties , a subject that had always clouded Barcelona 's relationship with Real Madrid , now fell upon the Catalans like gentle rain . |
| 18 | Sheets of rain hauled in off the bay , blew around the steamers and ferries moored round the windswept quay , then collapsed upon the dark grey buildings of the town . |
| 19 | He then called upon the Hon Secretary , Mr Ken Lucas , to give his report . |
| 20 | He then hit upon the idea of holding an extended putter just under , and sometimes just touching , his chin . |
| 21 | Glastonbury gave him a vague smile of great sweetness and then fell upon the vast mound of ham and eggs . |
| 22 | To name but three : Protestants everywhere insisted upon the necessity of allowing the laity to worship in the vernacular , giving them the cup in communion , and allowing the clergy to marry . |
| 23 | The dome is supported on four columns which have Ionic capitals taken from a classical temple which earlier stood upon the site . |
| 24 | Also a couple of days later Olsen himself once again spoke upon the matter — and the headline was something like ‘ Get a new club , Frank ’ . |
| 25 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |