Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 2 | The dome is supported on four columns which have Ionic capitals taken from a classical temple which earlier stood upon the site . |
| 3 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It also called upon the Commission to co-operate more closely with the Council of Europe and UNESCO on such initiatives in Europe . |
| 8 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 9 | However , he also relied upon a number of criticisms of the judge 's summing up . |
| 10 | In his travels he also came upon the lost Elf realm of Athel-Loren . |
| 11 | Having attained a First Class degree in History in 1935 , he then determined upon a doctorate , which he completed in 1938 . |
| 12 | He then called upon the Hon Secretary , Mr Ken Lucas , to give his report . |
| 13 | He then hit upon the idea of holding an extended putter just under , and sometimes just touching , his chin . |
| 14 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |